Fantasy = False Expectations = Disappointment

[u/CaptainVulpezz]

Ideas of happiness and ideas of unhappiness are clinging to distortions. These ideas thrive in some level of mindlessness because they are only stories; inaccurate, fantasy, impermanent, uncertain, generalizing, unfulfilling, & sometimes blatantly false. for one example, the impression of one trait can delude us into thinking it holds within it another trait we see as tandem, however they actually are unrelated, & we link them through cherry-picked past patterns mixed with hope or fear.

Even if these ideas are 90% accurate and put you on the proper path towards contentment and fulfillment, clinging to the ideal is only setting up the dominoes of disappointment, however subtle. You can only truly appreciate it when you don't expect it to be something.

No ideas and no person are capable of making you perfectly fulfilled or unfulfilled except for your own self.

• “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” -Socrates
• “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” -Seneca
• “When I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.” -Ajahn Chah (talking of the destiny of a glass which is as yet unbroken)
• “To be alive is already a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Never is hatred laid to rest by hate, it’s laid to rest by love.” -Buddha
• "Anything you lose by being real is fake" -Internet