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Shaking things up and changing your life drastically is fun and exciting......... for a while. Then you have to learn to build a life that you find sustainable,

Shaking things up and changing your life drastically is fun and exciting......... for a while. Then you have to learn to build a life that you find sustainable, whatever it is, or else you will always be running. This is sometimes called the "distance cure". Again, doing this feels great. For a while. I did it myself. But you should learn to distrust that good feeling, to examine it and find out why it's happening. A note of warning though, you probably won't like what you find. It's really easy to fool yourself into thinking that you are effecting change when really you are doing anything but. We are being lied to, by ourselves.

im3w1l 13y ago
As someone considering changing my life drastically, I would appreciate if you could elaborate on this post.
- joshguthrie 13y ago
  Week one: "Great, my life is changing! It's a fresh new start!" Week two: "It's nice making new friends every place I go!" Week six: "I kinda miss hacking, having my place, a stable life and my usual clique of friends. But not too much. Moving is cool but where am I really going? And for what?" Week ten: "Actually, I'm just doing what I was doing before but in another part of the world. And I realize I'm not even building something that's gonna last because I know I'm just gonna move out whenever I feel like it."