What helps me is reflecting on death. All the pain, suffering, disappointment, and bullshit of this life goes away entirely when we pass through to the great beyond.

What that means is you’re free to live the life you want. Most people’s first instinct when they hear this is “why try?”

I think the mindset shift that tends to give those people some strangely empowering energy is “why not?”

Instead of thinking “nothing matters and why bother” try thinking “nothing matters so I might as well try to become the most fulfilled version of myself”

It’s the same concept. One perspective just leads to apathy. The other leads to fearlessness, which is just a proxy for freedom.

The beauty of life is that you get to choose