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Who is living your life for you ?
Why, no one. I live my own life.
What causes you to live the kind of life you live; what makes you do what you do ?
My attitudes and viewpoints and convictions. Obviously, the way we think determines the way we act.
And where did you get these attitudes ? How come you think the way you do ? Where did you get your viewpoints towards sex, politics, religion, people, and everything else ?
Oh, I picked them up from other people in my early years.
Then they are not part of your original self; they are merely acquired?
Yes, that must be so.
Then you are living according to the attitudes and viewpoints of other people who passed them on to you ?
Well, yes.
Then you are not really living your life ?
I see what you mean. I am repeating what others told me. I a sense, I am living their life.
What if many of these acquired attitudes are wrong, unrealistic, damaging ? For instance, suppose you believe that it's impossible to switch from anxiety to happiness ?
Then I pay the price for that false belief.
Do you like paying the price ?
Not at all.
Must you continue to suffer from false viewpoints ?
No.
Why not ?
Because I can drop them. Since they are merely acquired, like uncomfortable clothing, I can shed them like clothing.
Then ?
Then, for the first time, I'll live my own life.
You like that idea ?
I'm ready!
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