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"I have no desire to get rid of my problems.
They’re what makes me who am I.
And getting rid of them would probably turn me into a personality-less blob."

what do you have to say?

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Anonymous

For many, confrontation defines who they are. What is important versus what is not, who is with them versus who is not. Without problems, adversaries or drama, many would be lost, adrift without a sense of identity.

No one is perfect, we all have our reactive weaknesses. Though, I would rather enjoy a challenge any day over a problem. It is the difference between sleepwalking through our waking state and wake-walking through the dreams we manifest. Create your destiny or succumb to it, just make no mistake, the choice is always yours.

“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.”

— Eckhart Tolle

There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me. I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience.

Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell

Choice creates destiny, while simultaneously, choices are created by destiny. It is paradoxical if we merely think about it. We may comprehend it as a thought only through analogy. But it is plainly obvious when it is experienced as a feeling. The feeling (if it could speak) might say, “If I follow this course, I know how it’s going to turn out, because I have already done it… I see that I’m drawn to choose the seashore because I am already there.” In other words, the so-called conscious choice is recognized as the unconscious knowing that (in one reality) it has already been done. We simply choose that which is most familiar to us. To become fully aware of this process means that we are in a position to truly set course on a new Choice and a new Destiny.

The Alchemy of Opposites