Yet another approach to life

I started to feel like real life and politics are almost the same. Those /pol/ chuddies really do nothing but gossiping about politicians and what they do. I mean look, every nation seeks its own interests, and so are people (even when they do genuine help they just want to feel good about themselves). Countries that influence others are like people enriching their social circles, wars start like real life fights, and political/social unrest is like having a deep conflict in your mind. Some people say they can fix their lives if they see it as a vidya, and while that's cool it still feels hard to actually apply it, as games have real goals, while for us when we want to do something, we think of doing "projects" like learning some skills or learning a language, which is (unfortunately) mostly just a way to cope with life; games have predefined big goals where the player must seek for, and we should define our goals and how to play the game. I think taking the approach of seeing life as a strategy game is better: look at yourself as if you were a country, see everyone as countries either influenced by other "countries" and do what is needed to gain prosperity. Maybe each of us need to pass to a little period of isolation in which we get to know and care for ourselves better, and then maybe see a way to break the ice with others without conforming to them and still be us (which is in fact possible, again, see yourself as a nation). Doing this makes me feel kind of grateful with what I already have, and makes me want to get better. I'm undiagnozed but have lots of PTSD-like symptoms and suffer from annoying tinnitus, despite this I really don't make my mental illness define me (drugs really do nothing but treat the symptoms and not cure the actual psychological disease, as described in the book "Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health") and think the body can heal itself by stop giving a fuarrrk to anyone and only take care of myself before anyone else. >I'm not gonna waste my time in your conspiracy theories ... What do you think lainons?

>>78594 >every nation seeks its own interest No, not in the west. Not since the 80's. If Europe or the US were real life people, they would give all their money to random people, borrow money, pay someone to clean their home or cook their meal, tell them to not do it and they would borrow more money to compensate for the fact that they have nothing to do. They would literally duck and cover as soon as a kid throw a rock at them and take pride in not answering when some hobo yell insults at them for half an hour when they go to work. > look at yourself as if you were a country I know. I will sign an agreement with some other people that say corporations can do whatever they want to me and they can even sue me if my actions hurt their profit. It is called the CPTPP. >and do what is needed to gain prosperity I will declare that the garage (Kuwait) of that guy in town who stock gas (Iraq) is an independent country so I can buy it for relatively cheap. If Iraq try to get his garage back, I will come with my shotgun. I am sorry but this analogy does not work very well.

>>78594 initial state >>78595 temporary winner established state where countries are vassals to other countries just like it already was during roman empire. Also the comparison is right for another reason - the brain will command the body to take drugs to feel good hurting the body. The statesmen will command the citizen to die for the statesmens gain.

>I mean look, every nation seeks its own interests Not really. A select few who have obtained prominent positions seek their own interests, usually by siphoning as many resources as they can from a group of people that they've gathered under the legislative mechanism dubbed "nation", a system that they didn't even create, but merely inherited. On the chance that the risk of being harmed by the actual ""nation"" grows serious enough, only then will they "seek the nation's interest", but at the end of the day, this is technically still the will of the few. Anyway, you are humanizing the concept of countries so that you can find a template to mirror and humanize yourself back. So you're basically doing mental gymnastics that don't really give you any new insight into life and complicating the concept of human relationship to I guess... make your life feel more meaningful? But I feel like you'll only be left feeling disappointed by this approach. Dunno.

>>78603 Yeah that's sort of true... >So you're basically doing mental gymnastics that don't really give you any new insight into life Fuarrrk. Ugh I just don't know anything. I often just feel completely lost and when I have a plan for something I figure out it wasn't that well. For example I want to significantly improve my health and lurk much books while putting other important things for later. I probably have an issue with perfectionism despite I try fuarrrking hard to avoid it. I just hate staying in that same position and want to change. >But I feel like you'll only be left feeling disappointed by this approach. What do you suggest then? Ugh fuarrrk perfectionism

Wars are more like a bully beating someone up for their lunch money or just defending themselves against that.

>>78623 Hm. When changing things in your routine or starting new activities, it's best to keep in mind that it's always going to be somewhat unfulfilling at first. Literally, on a chemical level, the adult brain thrives on familiar activities, on expending as little effort as possible and automating the entire process, including the planning, the thoughts and execution. It's the opposite for children, which is why they seemingly have an inexhaustible curiosity to them, and also one of the reasons why they learn languages as easily as they do. Once again, not a "you" thing, but a base human chemical setup. You'll have to grit your teeth through new activities at first until your brain learns to enjoy the familiarity, at which point you'll start to see positive effects. As for the rest, sorry for maybe being a bit harsh... Unfortunately, being in a kind of semi-hopeless situation myself, I can't really offer you anything concrete, unless you want to hear typical normal person platitudes about hobbies etc. Finding hobbies and friends is great, but the point is to find something or someone that genuinely gives you a sense of meaning in this world, not just a checklist you sign at the end of the day, and that's dependent on too many factors for a one-size-fits-all solution.

>wars start like real life fights No they don't >I'm not gonna waste my time in your conspiracy theories So you're just a closed minded person and this discussion will go nowhere

>>78641 I think I actually got it now. Thinking of me as a country is kind of soykaf because it made me almost a perfectionist again (inspired by Lenin and his withdrawal from WW1 only to have the USSR attack the Balkans blah blah blah). I think what I needed is to know I'm perfectly imperfect and just accept it along with thinking of me in my funeral and seeing what others would've thought of me and then just write my goals backwards and write everything I needed to do the next week along with a rest day. This book which I already read kind of inspired me of it but I just didn't know what to do with perfection. Those who try to be perfect become so obsess over something and neglect everything else... not a good thing. >>78642 >So you're just a closed minded person and this discussion will go nowhere No this was about what some would say if I told them that "drugs" i.e. meds are no more than symptom treaters that give some placebo effect and that dealing with mental illness should instead begin with you and how you behave.