• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    21 hours ago

    For most people, a prerequisite feeling for tranquility, is contentment.

    And trust me, no pacifist is “content” with the current state of the world. “Worry-free” is literally in the first sentence on the wikipedia page of the word, and I don’t think anyone can be that, except temporarily and/or by being inebriated.

    The only way I know to be tranquil, is to ignore the world, and willfully focus only on the good things in my immediate surroundings, in my life specifically.

    Essentially, to get there I have to take a break from caring about most things. I don’t like doing that. I want to improve things, and to do that I have to care about things to begin with.

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      20 hours ago

      If you had to be content with the state of the world before feeling tranquil, nobody would ever feel tranquil.

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          11 hours ago

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          For most people, a prerequisite feeling for tranquility, is contentment. And trust me, no pacifist is “content” with the current state of the world.

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            8 hours ago

            Look up the difference between “most” and “all”.

            Further, consider that not all people are pacifists.

            Finally, note how I go on to describe how one can feel things one otherwise wouldn’t, depending on what one is focused on.

            You have to willwfully bend my words to misinterpret what I said to mean that tranquility is an impossible state for a person to be in.