This is a thoughtful and helpful answer. The key is to find out about yourself first, and only then decide what you want to do. If you have not found your inne

This is a thoughtful and helpful answer. The key is to find out about yourself first, and only then decide what you want to do. If you have not found your inner peace yet, it is very difficult to make good life decisions. My own background: self-harm and substance abuse. The key to leaving these things behind was to spend time doing hard work on myself. We all hate hearing this and I hated it too at first, but there is no way for things to get better without hard work. The miracle cure will never work, no matter how hard we wish. I got a lot out of this Buddhist lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-jiIpcYMZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-jiIpcYMZw Paraphrasing the video: a cure that works instantly without having to do any work is really a person saying "give me a drug that feels good forever."