Close the window that hurts you, no matter how beautiful the view is.
Have you ever been attracted to someone or something that creates continuous pain in your life, regardless of how alluring it is?
For some, it’s a toxic relationship. For others, it is a substance abuse. For others, a disorder of magnitude.
Whatever the stimuli, at some point, in a moment of survival, we awaken to the reality that we must eradicate this stimuli from our lives, or perish in the process.
Whatever circumstances that may give us cause to see it clearly, in black or white (with no longer any shade of gray possible), we are well-advised to finally acquiesce to making the harsh decision to close the window and eliminate the view.
This may feel entirely counterintuitive to the way that our emotions reside on this topic, but if we are not desirous of self-preservation, we will be consumed by the very specific insanity that life is sending us continuous warning signals to avoid.
It is only through our perpetual desire to thrive that we might ultimately find the internal strength and resolution to turn our focus towards willpower in which we overcome our persistent desire to self-destruct.
We are, in many cases, creatures of habit, and those habits have many ways of either empowering us or tearing us down.
When you find the variable that is slowly destroying you, the need to awaken and shake yourself from those constraints could not be more important.
Close the window permanently and eliminate the view.
Happy Tuesday!
Brian Weiner 