Choice
Doing only what you want, indulging all your desires, is the shortest path to your personal lifetime underworld.
You can only get out of it by building your persona.
This path «down» is usually accompanied by a deep, «reinforced concrete» confidence in one's own «independence» and «freedom».
At the same time, a person walking along this path for some reason ignores reminders that reality is an open system (where everything depends on everything in one way or another), and absolute freedom is death.
Freely and independently going to the underworld can attach obsessive, excessive importance to health, proper nutrition, technologies of rejuvenation, etc. – on this basis, it is quite easy to detect such a route.
This route, however, is quite natural at a certain period of life – because it is nothing more than a teenage rebellion (which, however, can happen at 13, 30, and even at the age of «sugar daddy»).
Passing through personal hell, a person in the process of this rebellion commits quite certain mistakes (which religions often call sins), hard and harsh learning from them.
The meaning of the journey is to get to your own ultimate depth (which religions call «hell»), and «push off from its bottom» – having found support, an inner core, a basement.
Complete the BECOMING.
And swim out of the depths of the personal school of loneliness and suffering named after oneself – upward, into the «paradise» life.
Full of interdependencies and varying degrees of lack of freedom – but, paradoxically, this is why it is so pleasant and «divine».
Freedom as an inherent value and goalin itself is deceptive. It is similar to the desire of the «eternal schoolchild» to spend the whole life to «repeat the year».
So, in fact, the persistent desire for «freedom» drives into one of the very, very unfree, rigid and painful «hellish circles».
Earthly, of course.
A freedom lover who indulges one's desires can become hardened, perceiving the real structure of the world and universal unity as a challenge – and due to this plunging into ever lower circles, with increasingly harsh lessons and conditions.
Such a «know-it-all», wise one with a lot of absolutely hellish experience, becomes either a tyrant-narcissistic-psychopath, involving others in a merciless struggle with reality, «luring» them, acting as an involuntary tempter.
What is most interesting, that kind of people are fully convinced that the «war» is good, you just need to push a little more, and...
Or this wise traveler becomes a guide, mentor and helper for those who have passed a path that is smaller in depth (and height – they, like everything in the universe, are interdependent).
Of course, these roles can be alternated. But, in general, there is a very simple choice towards one of these two directions:
«Freedom or happiness»
Why is rebellion and freedom naturally chosen by the «teenager»?
This is not only and not so much freedom for something.
This is, first of all, freedom from – the oppressive family cocoon of no-longer-a-child; the protective programs and instructions that «pinch» like a shell of an egg pinches a hatching chicken.
Although earlier they used to be protective and useful.
The harder the «shell», the subjectively more difficult and deeper is a path to personal hell – to the formation of one's own person.
Caring mothers who buy large apartments in the city center for their over-aged «kids» should understand and remember this.
After all, happiness becomes possible only after the complete exit from the parental «shell» and establishing in the external world.
«Paradise» and «parade» are consonant words. And «parade» means something public, something out-of-the-box and out-og-the-shell, right?
This happy feeling (and state) of «personal paradise» is quite attainable in life – if you make the appropriate choice; twice: first – to the bottom – in one direction, and then – to the peaks – in the another.