I'm personally at that age and in the cross roads to this decision and would welcome some different perspectives.
I'm personally at that age and in the cross roads to this decision and would welcome some different perspectives.
This an excerpt from Eknath Easwaran's translation of the Dhammapada, in which he describes the theme of the book:
When we hear that our personality is no more real than a movie, we may feel dejected, abandoned in an alien universe.
The Buddha replies gently, “You don’t understand.” If life were not a process, if thought were continuous, we would have no freedom of choice, no alternative to the human condition. It is because each thought is a moment of its own that we can change.
“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.”.
I'm normally an active person and try to use my time as productively as possible, but there is the odd day were I just feel "off". I'm not ill, nor under stress in relation to my environment or the people that surround me, and it's not depression either; just this strong feeling to "do nothing". It's like there's a part of my brain that just wants to "stop" as everything that requires action feels like a drag. Let me emphasise, I enjoy my job, studying and project work that I do in my spare time, and also like going to the gym. I'm not a stranger to, nor detest hard work. It just that sometimes, this feeling of resistance comes up that I can't explain. Anybody else here with similar experiences?