Im happy but there is a heavy feeling of sadness in my heart that I just can't remove. Why am I like this?

For much of my adult life, I interpreted this sadness as something being wrong - with either myself or my life in general.

It’s still here.

Your job is not to be the manager of your life, but the one who discovers yourself fully.

Can I know a love story of a medical student?

What most people don’t know unless they’ve looked more closely is that there is also an element of deep, profound sadness that has always been with me since as long as I can remember.

What I am trying to say is that when you stop trying to change yourself into something you are not, you give yourself the gift of discovering yourself as you already are.

Most people that know me would probably describe me as a social, happy, and somewhat quirky person with a twisted sense of humor.

Teens like me, what are your expectations when entering adulthood?

So I finally threw my hands up and said something to the tune of “fuck it, since I can't seem to change, I’ll just be whatever I am then.”

I had run out of hope.

Be who you already are.

Why can't I lose weight?

Needless to say, my failed attempts to fix my sadness simply brought me more pain and suffering.

And the sadness?

When I stopped trying to force myself to be something I am not, I gave myself the freedom of being who I am.

Why are there posts saying the T in LGBT should be dropped? With what is happening in the US and beyond against the trans community cause for concern that if this is accepted could it be deemed acceptable to start on the LGB community again?

You are like me, then.

This interpretation lead me on a path of self improvement, to fix what I considered to be “wrong” with myself.

It’s difficult to put into words exactly what caused what, but to the best of my ability to describe it, I felt as if my will to keep fighting was beaten right out of me.

According to the Gita, how do I abandon fruits of my karma? Should I donate my whole salary and stay hungry?

It’s impossible to overstate the freedom and peace I discovered, and I realized the only one who had been keeping those from me was… me and my imagined standards and expectations for how I had imagined I should be.

But unlike before, there is no more resistance to the sadness.

It’s here now, writing to you.

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Now, this may sound like a story of failure and giving up, but it’s actually a story of liberation.

I was tired of fighting.

You are the masterpiece you came here to discover.

I'm British and feel ashamed of the crimes of British colonialism. What should I do?

It’s the most beautiful and liberating thing in the world.

Without resistance, sadness has a sense of beauty and depth I cannot find otherwise in life.

It wasn’t until about 10 years ago that I finally fell out of that ferris wheel of trying and failing to fix myself.

How can we worship Shri Krishna at home? Is it enough to install an idol, or are there other rituals that are mandatory?

So if you are sad - like me - then be sad.

The sadness was still there.

But no matter what I read or practiced, I could never make the sadness budge for longer than a few fleeting moments - and even then, it was likely due to me being distracted from the sensation of sadness rather than anything actually shifting.

Are Indian youths conservative or liberal?

I was tired of trying and failing.

In the absence of a should, I was free to be as I am.