RE: They Just Have to Stack Existential Survival Problem Side by Side With First World Problem
My little existential question. What can I care about, how others perceive me? What matters is me and my perceived and lived world. My values. Which will rarely coincide with anyone's, in general or in particular. You are the center of your inner and outer world. Other people's world is their own problem.
Why have so many doubts? Just feel free, happy, creative. The world is a mirror. No one can enter your own world. Even pain is in the mind; we allow it, we cling to it, or we transform it into beauty.
I know what I'm talking about. Limitations surround me. They're a great domino effect: standards fall, and new ones fall and fall. But that won't stop me from thinking and trying to see the best in every possible event.
As a friend once said: Life, however you come, I'll live you.
Everyone goes about their own lives, self-contained and seemingly unaware, until someone asks, "How are you?" The moment I answer honestly, the comparisons and invalidation begin. This is why my response, without fail, is always a simple, final, "I'm good."