How do you self-improve while also trying to appreciate what you have?They seem like polar opposites to me.
>>33856374By realizing the world doesnt owe you anything. Unless you were a spoiled child then life is hard and you gotta fight for what you want. If you were a spoiled child and fucked up your life then the future will be extra hard if you dont put your head down and grind for what you believe you need to be happy.
>>33856374Make today better than yesterday and be grateful for the opportunity.
>>33856374be humble and realize that the only possession a human has is their body. everything else outside the body is extra
>>33856374Be grateful you have the chance to self improve. You don't have to improve, you get to. It is good to be good, it is better to get better.
>>33856374You need to understand your potential as something you already have, and see self-improvement as an expression of appreciation for the opportunity you resulting have.
>>33856378This. You gotta learn to love the journey.
im so lonely
>>33856374Consider a dog. One might point to them as one of the most pure types of affection and appreciation. They're happy to see you, run up to you when you come into the room, and lick your face. Does that mean they're always going to cuddle you and never get up? Not be upset if your withhold food? Not be distractable? Always listen to you? Appreciation isn't grasping. If you're always taking lingering glances, longer hugs, and feel something ooey gooey about a person it doesn't mean your appreciationmaxxing. Next consider the ignoble SM64 speedrunner. Nobody puts as many hours into the video game as the person spamming 16 star runs in Super Mario 64. They get mad at the shitty fucking game because they know about the % chance to hit an invisible wall in a seam. But they keep playing the game and striving for a better time. Nobody appreciates the game as much as the speedrunner. You might not be feeling the transient emotional joy as someone playing it for the first time. Appreciation might be striving for more. It would mean some form of non-attachment to the state of things. If you study the state of things for long enough you'll recognize its transient nature and thereby realize it's the only sane way to engage with it. Did you appreciate your life more when you were playing 4 player video games on a console laughing with your friends, eating pizza, and getting shitty sleep at a sleepover or when, in the wake of it, you tried to remember how rare and precious it is to have moments going forward?Maybe feeling the moment and letting go is enough. Maybe you don't appreciate your body by himming and hawing about the state of it but instead feeling the lift and striving for bigger muscles. Maybe you appreciate by not choosing alcohol in pursuit of a state you think is neat and instead choose one that will make you feel better longer. Or maybe you appreciate the night by getting drunk and laughing with people like you did at the sleep overs. Who knows?
Stoic philosophy, Meditations if you really want to, but Epictetus' Discourses has some truly life-changing insight.
By realizing that you don't truly "own" anything. Everything you possess whether physical or mental will decline/break over time. Knowing this, we shouldn't be so attached to what we have, but we can truly appreciate it while it's here with us now
>>33856376>>33856375Retarded wagie copes lmaooGet back in cagie
>>33856382Braindead
>>33856384based. to take it a step further, everything will eventually crumble to dust - everything you try to build, keep, hoard, all memories and relationships. so what's the point in spending your fleeting time here holding onto anger, or chasing money and status? why not build yourself up mentally and physically, realize your full potential, live life to the fullest, and appreciate the present for what it is?
