Nature’s Highlights:

I find that nature’s always there to teach me something.

And this week, it showed me how light-darkness, good-bad, life-death can coexist in a beautiful entanglement.

Since I was 10 years old, I’ve always craved love, I’ve always needed it,

Like it was the food to my hunger, the water to my thirst.

From when I started my freshman year of high-school, and until the first half of junior year,

I didn’t spend a single second, A SECOND, without “being in love” with someone.

Every time one left my heart, there was always someone new to take hold of it.

Basically, I was a fucking simp.

And guess where this need, this desire, this craving even led me?

Out of the 3 girls that I liked, or even loved, none of them reciprocated my feelings.

Looking back, I don’t know if it was just because of my personality, or some sort of divine intervention.

Only when I truly started self-improvement, could I let go of this constant loop.

So one year ago, after sorting out pieces of my mind, I realized the exact thing I’m trying to preach to you guys today:

If there is something in this world that you need, that you “cannot live without”, then you don’t deserve to have it.

And I obviously don’t mean this in a life time-horizon. We all need love, friends, and meaning in our lives, that’s undoubtable.

But when it comes to this present moment, until you abolish this invented need from within your heart,

You’ll only end up destroying what it is you love.

If, right now, the perfect girl came into my life, the one I’ve been dreaming about for years,

I would pray to God that she had a boyfriend.

Because I know that my need, and I emphasize this word - need - will only push her away.

If I cannot be content with myself, I don’t deserve to have someone come and fill that void.

And this doesn’t only apply to love, or relationships.

This applies to everything that you need, be it money, happiness, or any other thing.

Needing something only keeps you a slave, tied to your cravings, making the present miserable in the process.

It’s like you’re trying to fly towards your goals, but something is keeping your wings chained to the ground.

So how do you escape that?

Well, this Wednesday I did what I do best, I grabbed out a journal and I wrote in it until all my problems went away.

So, here’s the solution:

1. You don’t need anything:

Bro what? This whole article I spoke to you about how needy we all are, and now I’m turning around saying this?

Yup, you heard me right.

Everything I said earlier is right, but it’s right only from the standpoint of our self-brainwashed minds.

We lie to ourselves that we need certain things in our lives, otherwise we cannot be happy.

Porn addicts do this all the time, which is something I learned from reading this book on quitting.

But, in reality, we’re the most evolved species on this whole ass planet.

No matter who you are, or what you’ve been through,

You are strong just by virtue of being human.

So d crawl under a little blanket, trying to hide from the world, whilst holding on to your crutch.

You don’t need anything than what is humanly necessary to survive.

Having more is just a privilege.

2. Stop showering your brain:

(I didn’t want to repeat “brainwashing”)

We’re all constantly lying to ourselves, trying to put our lives and personalities in a small, neat category of stories that we decided to live in as children.

For me, I’ve always envisioned myself as the main character of a shonen

Shonen = anime genre where the main-character starts off as a loser, only to become the strongest mf because he didn’t give up

That’s how I saw my life, that’s what kept me going through the horrible times after losing my dad.

I was always thinking: “I’m forced to go through all of this just so I can become stronger later.”

And so, my whole life I’ve put myself in the role of that main-character.

Which led to constantly dreaming about me BEING that character.

I never thought I’d say this to so many people (you’re not that many, but still),

But for the past five years or so, while walking down the street,

I’ve always blasted music in my ears, imagining myself with superpowers and helping my friends, saving them from disaster.

These stories changed over the years, based on the animes I watched, and my personal needs.

At one point, I even created an entire plot, thinking I could actually write a book about it.

But what all these dreams had in common was this:

I was always saving the love of my life.

Besides everyone else I loved, she was the main center of attention, just how it was in anime.

This was the reason I’ve become so attached to this idea,

Thinking I NEED to meet that requirement to live that life.

It was something necessary, because I made it be.

We all tell ourselves different tales about how our life is supposed to look, or how our subconscious self would dream it.

But all this does is force ourselves to crave something that we might not yet have.

Every time I came back to my reality, I was left with neither superpowers, nor someone to love (or be loved by).

And I could deal with the first one, but the latter always destroyed my heart.

So I decided I have to detach myself from this story, if I want to eliminate this craving.

From now on, the only story that matters is the one I have here, in the present,

The one that I’m creating with my own hands.

I don’t need anything to help me on this journey.

The only requirement I have is a strong mind. If I got that, everything else will come.

Get that settled into your minds:

You don’t need anything more than a strong mind. You can’t achieve anything without it.

Gracias, mi amigos, for reading this far. (I’m learning Spanish)

I hope I managed to make a positive impact in your lives, if you know anyone that might benefit from this, just hit that share button.

And until next time, guys, have an amazing week, and, as always, keep growing. <3