Saturday, November 23, 2013

Tiring today, but managed to cut down loads on food.

Entire day, my intake would be mee pok, tofu, siew mai, soya bean, 100 plus, then plain water all the way~

Then, after training went to meet friends, initially they wanted to come bedok find me for that few moments before training.

Good day today, work is rather peaceful, I want a instaphoto contest, and good start in project, and good friends around.

Anyway, came through a post and I felt it's brilliant, thus gonna reblog from lonelyreload.com

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Everybody wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a care-free, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room.

Everybody wants that, it's easy to want that.

If I ask you, "What do you want out of life?" and you say something like, "I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like," it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything.

Everyone wants that. So what's the point?

What's more interesting to me is what pain do you want? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives end up.

Everyone wants riches and good relationship, life like drama, but how many willing to sit through the long hours of corporate work or to discuss awkward silences and tough decisions. 

Because happiness requires struggle. You can only avoid pain for so long before it comes roaring back to life.

At the core of all human behavior, the good feelings we all want are more or less the same. Therefore what we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire but by what bad feelings we're willing to sustain.

What determines your success is "What pain do you want to sustain?"

If you find yourself wanting something month after month, year after year, yet nothing happens and you never come any closer to it, then maybe what you actually want is a fantasy, an idealization, an image and a false promise. Maybe you don't actually want it at all.

So I ask you, "How are you willing to suffer?"

Because you have to choose something. You can't have a pain-free life. It can't all be roses and unicorns.

Choose how you are willing to suffer.

Because that's the hard question that matters. Pleasure is an easy question. And pretty much all of us have the same answer.

The more interesting question is the pain. What is the pain that you want to sustain?

Because that answer will actually get you somewhere. It's the question that can change your life. It's what makes me me and you you. It's what defines us and separates us and ultimately brings us together.

So what's it going to be?

Read more: http://www.lonelyreload.com/#ixzz2lOQLJU63

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