Suffering is inescapable. It is as certain in life as death an taxes. Choosing what we suffer in, however, can make make life more bearable and ultimately rewarding.
For even if we have no means and feel that every way we turn we find ourselves in pain, we can choose the pain that we feel.
There is liberty in the choice.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Composer, Poet, Philologist, & Latin/Greek Scholar; Works Include: Beyond Good and Evil, The Will to Power, and The Birth of Tragedy
Accepting the fact that life is defined by our suffering is something that everyone will come to face at one time or another. Each of us faces the trials and tribulations of life.
However, for each of us to reach our true individuality we must do more than just accept it. We must embrace the struggle that is life for what it is. Pain is a driver, not a distraction. Harness it.
Embracing conscious effort and harnessing emotions through tech can have beneficial results on everything from social relationships to the health of the body.
To find the truth of our individual selves we must be able to think for ourselves and not be jaded by society. We must learn to care about what matters and not give a damn about what doesn’t.
We must have open access to information and be able to share freely and trust without intermediaries. We must be able to independently identify those things that are false and choose to suffer in those things that have value.
For it is through that suffering that we can find ourselves.
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far? The tension of soul in misfortune which communicates to it its energy, it is shuddering in view of rack and ruin, its inventiveness and bravery in undergoing, enduring, interpreting, and exploiting misfortune, and whatever depth, mystery, disguise, spirit, artifice, or greatness has been bestowed upon the soul – has it not been bestowed through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 7, Our Virtues
In the world of tech, many are concerned that a full indulgence of technological advancement into our lives will leave us alone and predestined for depression, anxiety, and suffering. For some of us, we’ve found ourselves there and it had nothing to do with Technology. Tech, however, provided a means to crawl out from under it.
Even games of Cyberpunk explore conditions like cybersychosis, whereby an individual develops mental illness due to an overload of cybernetic augmentations and ultimately loses their identity. This makes them dangerous.
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Anyone is susceptible, yet the more empathetic a person is the more resistant they are.
The key aspect lost in these discussions, that I was able to discover along my own journey, is the ability to link individuals in the community through tech and provide truly free inspiration, information exchange, and dialogue.
The tech community is growing all over the digital landscape and creating opportunities for connection. In the quest for Wealth, YouTube is overrun with communities looking to help each other achieve their financial dreams. One of these provided great inspiration for me too: Financial Education. There are many of us who have grown to have the desire to foster new communities in the same light, BCBCyber is one of them.
Community game innovations like Roblox and health innovators like Livongo too are seeking to do just that as well. Linking individuality and community within tech is the key to our enhancing our humanity and ultimately our own ability to harness our suffering and build ourselves into what we choose. If our path is to be defined by that which we choose to suffer in and overcome, its time we examined further the art of not caring too much about what doesn’t matter and committing to what does, even if that means a bit more suffering.
Explore, engage, and maximize your tech potential with us each and every day of the week. Looking for more now? Here’s another great tool for examining how choosing to suffer, care, and overcome can impact our lives. Check out The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, by Mark Manson (#CommissionsEarned).
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