Lex DeVille
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That’s just too deep for a morning read with my first coffee before even a workout.
But I’ll say this - if you need external validation for happiness, you sir are F*cked. External is for little pleasures, internal is where deep satisfaction lives. It’s all in your head. Happy or unhappy - you get to decide. Rationalizing happiness with some logical thoughts removes any possibility of happiness. You act into feeling a particular way. The more internal it is, the more lasting.
I’m happy when I run and notice trees, road, sky … or rain on my face, snow at my feet. I’m miserable and in pain when I run because I want to show people how fast I am. When I expect people to check me out on Strava.
It’s internal 100%. External validation means F*ck all nothing. That’s the script talking.
Everything means f*ck all nothing if life has a conclusion, so it makes no difference where validation comes from. If the goal is to be happy, then I agree, that comes from within. I'm not looking for happiness though. I can choose happiness; however, I cannot choose to feel fulfilled by something that I do not find fulfilling. I find external validation fulfilling when it comes to art. I would never be fulfilled by singing in the shower no matter how good I think my singing might be (unless perhaps I were famous for being the world's greatest shower singer!).
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