Have you ever had this experience? You have a major crisis in your life. It’s 3 o’clock in the morning. You can’t sleep. You really want someone to talk to, but it’s 3 o’clock in the morning.
There is no one to talk to. So you fundamentally, in your frustration, in your isolation, you realize that you are alone. You’re on your own. There’s you and the universe, God. That’s it.
Nobody quite is going to understand the phone call at this hour. Now you can wake up your spouse and try to explain. Sometimes it works, usually not. The advice comes back, it’s okay, honey. Just get some sleep and it’ll all be fine.
But it won’t be fine. So what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Well, firstly, you’re going to say to yourself, I’m on my own. And that’s a positive thing.
I am not a victim. I am in control of this reality I call life. And yes, life is fickle and, yes, life is unfair. But how I respond to it need not necessarily be unfair. It might be the way it should be because these are my thoughts and this is my life.
So I’m going to ponder and I’m going to develop a plan and I would like to label it a happiness plan. I’m gonna get myself out of this great dilemma that I seem to be in. Once again, this is not very original truly because people have been going through crisis since time in memorial, haven’t they? We’ve suffered if we think, if we’re looking for God, if we’re looking for love, if we’re looking for a better life, we suffer. We just do.
That’s just the way it is. That seems to be the license that we have to acquire if we wanna live a better life. And we might not live a better life. We might fail at these frustrations. And that’s what terrifies us, I am sure at 3 o’clock in the morning because we have to make the Kirkgaardian leap of faith.
We have to take a chance on the self, on me. I have to believe in me that is all going to work itself out somehow in some way. And I have to mentally begin to plan. What will tomorrow bring? Well, tomorrow morning when I wake up and go to work guaranteed, I will be tired for sure because the body needs more sleep than 4 hours.
Right? For sure. But as I wake up, I’m going to tell myself, Leon, it’s going to be alright. Maybe it’s not going to be alright today, and maybe it’s not going to be alright tomorrow, and maybe in a week’s time. But eventually, it is going to be alright because I know that this is what has to come to pass in my life.
As Aristotle tells us, I’ve said this before. To paraphrase, we are all naturally happy, but it is a process. I must force myself. So the next time it’s 3 o’clock in the morning and you’re feeling alone and you’re feeling frustrated, remind yourself that I’m gonna get through this because as long as I have consciousness, I can. And you know, we must always think to ourselves, I’m going to wake up.
I’m going to get up. I’m going to stand up. I’m going to clean up. I’m going to get dressed. I’m gonna be there and I’m never ever ever ever ever going to give up on life, on me.
And you know what they say, you know what they say. Critical thinking is necessary and, of course, critical thinking is great. Never give up on you. Bless you. Bye bye.