May 3, 2011
I regret the burden of generations of mental illness and painful addiction issues….
I am sure I will post here often, I have many, many regrets. I regret the burden of generations of mental illness and painful addiction issues that are rampant, unforgiving and non-discriminate in my genetic composition. I know that it is not my fault, nor is it my Mother or Father’s fault, etc and so on. I wish my family and I could catch a break and that our lives were not so complicated. I feel alone, all by myself. I regret that SOME people are very quick to judge, and are ignorant in regards to my unique and extremely complex personal life and family situation.
Submitted by: mya
At 12:07 am on May 29, 2011, Stan Johnson commented:
Dear Mya,
I have been through the phase of regretting but it did not seem to achieve anything. We may have no choice when we are born. All we can do is try to live a quiet and peaceful life and hope that at the end of it, we are freed from the burden of carnality.
Some ancient beliefs were that whatever is dead must be born and whatever is born must die. Joys and suffering are transient. We have to try to endure them and hope that we will be released eventually from our suffering.
We cannot help the ‘hand we are dealt’. We are all alone inside our ‘containment vessels’ but we can try to help others to reduce their suffering and sometimes, this helps us to reduce our suffering.
People are very often quick to judge and their judgements are made from their own, often limited perspectives. They may prefer to believe lies and close their minds to the truth.
We must try to transcend this, safe in the knowledge that all is transient.
At 8:11 pm on December 5, 2011, anonymous commented:
I entirely agree with the first comment it is insightful and compassionate.Mya,I wish you the best,some of us understand that people can be faced with great suffering and we should be so lucky that we do not have to go trough this ourselves.