Andreas' Blog

Have you ever found yourself in a situation, where you have been anxious about the outcome, but you have been too striking by fear, allowing you to find the courage to pursuit the outcome, the truth? Common situations could be job, dating or maybe test results from the hospital.

I’m urging you to be brave, be willing to see how things actually are. Break the mirrors, remove the smoke screens, look under the carpet, and doing so as early as possible! This principle sets up for bliss in the medium- and longterm, but to earn this bliss, we have to willingly face shortterm discomfort.

Why aren’t you willing to seek out the truth? It may be uncomfortable – at first. But the alternative is worse as you know what you need to do, and you’re not doing it. Well, there is a slight chance that things actually are great and there is nothing to be found in the fog. However, you know that the odds are overwhelmingly tilting the seesaw the other way – it is more likely to be hell than heaven. Instead of releasing this tension early on, you’re maintaining the potential of the state of things being either this or that. You’re not willing to open the box to check whether Schrödinger’s cat is dead or alive, because, as long as you don’t it is both. So, in the potential of “heaven”, the unknown state, you’re willing to keep yourself in an anxious frame.

Why is this problematic? Postponing our duties, postponing the stuff we know we need to do eventually is unnecessarily prolonging our anxious state. And this is not only prolonging our own mental suffering it is an amplifyer. Instead of dealing with our troubles head-on we let these demons grow in the shadows, when we could have dealt with them when they were nothing more than harmless tadpoles.

Humans are comfort-seekers it is in our biological wiring, so it is not hard to understand why. But, using “comfort” as a compass for our path in life is what leads people to cutting deals with the devil, leading them down the wrong path. Comfort is an awful indicator for decision-making. We need to fight this natural inclination, and rather do what we need to do, and do this early on, hereby saving ourselves the avoidable consequences of inaction.

So, what path do you decide to walk down on? And how early are you willing to make the decision? Remember, looking for the truth early on can save you a lot of trouble.