Can you really fight who you are?

[shellz641]

Forget your troubles come on get happy....do de do!!

You are at your happiest when you are being yourself. Dont fear anything because everything is a reflection of you. Both good and bad need to be accepted and intertwined to created the perfect YOU!

 

[atanu]

The person I was two to six years ago was obsessed with a woman who turned out to not be worth my attention at all.

The person I was twenty years ago was hopelessly enthralled with a conception of the world that could not stand on its own.

Both times I fought who I was and arguably won.

Not that I had a choice, or that the price wasn't hefty, mind you.

That is true. Life has been one attachment after another with intervening death like pain. I do not know when I will be Buddha.

 

[Sunstone]

In my experience, it's easy to fight yourself, but you tend to wake up someday pretty much where you began, having wasted a few years.

 

[Willamena]

You mean to enact a drama of the drama?

Either that, or it's good for a laugh!

 

[Sir Doom]

To me, internal conflict is the natural state. I am constantly 'fighting' myself. I am a swirling melee of competing future selves all built on the past winners for better or worse. I can always make a new choice going forward, but I can never take back the choices I've made already. They are part of me forever and every competing future self is built on who I have been and who I am now. But I am master of who I will be. It is a conflict of my own design. A necessary part of my process. In every moment, with every thought and every action I decide who I am. I settle on a winner.