36, frustrated, angry, bored, uninspired and stuck in a safe, boring, but tolerable dead end job. A job which I’ll be stuck doing for the next 30 years till retirement cause this is as far as I can go in my life. Failed and burned out from multiple business ventures, and have completely given up hope in building a successful business empire or doing anything of note period. I’ve resigned myself to my fate. My question is how to accept & cope with the misery that is my mediocre and boring life? Drugs? Alcohol? Criminal activity?
There is often very little we can ever change except our attitude and expectations towards that which comes down the chute. Practicing acceptance, detaching from the fruits of one’s own labor (I don’t mean in an economic sense, but in an action and response sense, accepting failure and loss equally as you accept success and gain), and striving selflessly to improve the life’s of others you care about is the core of what gives your life meaning.
So just give up? Just accept? I’ve been accepting shit my whole life, and I’m done with that. Would rather go postal or start a violent revolution and end up in prison I think at this point than just accept shit. I’m not changing my attitude or expectations, they are what they are. I have no interest in gaslighting myself.