Rule 2: Remember What You Lost

Remember what you lost, in detail – the thing in all its glory and in all its distaste, the people who took the thing away. The time that it happened. Your life before the loss and after the loss. 

             And most importantly, remember that the threat of a loss will always be more daunting than the loss. So let the fear of letting-things-go go.

Corollary to Rule 2:

Observe the lives of those who haven’t lost as much. Observe the difference between their lives and yours. In detail. Observe what makes them tick. Observe the ease of things. (Think to screw them). And remember this feeling, the quiet anger. 

Use it in ways they can’t imagine. 

More importantly, never use it in ways that they can imagine. 

Rule 1 - The first step towards peace

Don’t give a shit about shit. Identify what is shit and label it as shit. And then don’t give a shit about it. The mediocre (people, tasks, thoughts) don’t deserve your full attention. Review and revisit what you pay attention to. Stop the train in its tracks if its not headed somewhere – you know, when it’s going the fuck around in circles.

Corollary to Rule 1

Take few things seriously. Take almost nothing too seriously. There is almost nothing that has a lasting impact on anything. 

Things take the course they do and get where they get. You form a story of sorts looking back. If they took another course and ended somewhere else, they would make just as much sense or non-sense.

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This is a set of rules I come up with for myself. Any resemblance with your thought process is purely coincidental.