Romantic obsession takes over when you lack meaning/purpose — Transcript
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- 0:00This one's going to ruffle some
- 0:01feathers. How
- 0:03an aimless life devoid of passion
- 0:08amplifies lirance.
- 0:11Oh boy, I feel it already.
- 0:14I feel this one because I'm like, "Oh,
- 0:16this is a critique of my own life, the
- 0:18life that was." I'm Kirby. I'm a
- 0:20specialist in trauma and attachment
- 0:21theory. I used to be a wreck. Now I'm
- 0:23not. That's it. I've got a multitude of
- 0:27videos that talk about the things I
- 0:29teach. Check them out. They're awesome.
- 0:32At least the comments seem to think
- 0:33they're awesome. I do one-on-one
- 0:35sessions and I love it greatly. It's one
- 0:37of my number one passions. And my top
- 0:39priority in everything is to protect the
- 0:43next generation of children from
- 0:46attachment trauma. And the way we do
- 0:49this is by helping you get your life in
- 0:51order. You get your attachment system in
- 0:53order. Okay. So on to the topic today
- 0:58which is the connection between limrance
- 1:03and life dissatisfaction,
- 1:06aimless,
- 1:07lack of passion, lack of meaning, lack
- 1:09of purpose,
- 1:11all those things. This one's pretty
- 1:13simple actually, but it is a hard truth
- 1:15to swallow for many. If I do not have
- 1:19something in my life that I really care
- 1:22about. If I wake up every day and I'm
- 1:25like, I'm not sure what I'm doing here.
- 1:28I'm not sure where I should spend my
- 1:29time.
- 1:31I don't really have anything that drives
- 1:33me. Well, when you have something that
- 1:36you that drives you or you feel
- 1:38passionate about or that you're you wake
- 1:41up in the morning and you're raring to
- 1:42go to just be like, I want to go make
- 1:46some incremental progress on this
- 1:48project. I want to go learn. I want to
- 1:51go practice. I want to go train. There's
- 1:53something that drives me. Like something
- 1:57I heard once was like, "What is the
- 1:59thing in your life that makes you want
- 2:02to jump out of bed on a cold, wet, nasty
- 2:06morning when you've got the flu?"
- 2:09Basically, you feel miserable and the
- 2:11day looks like crap, but you're still
- 2:15like,
- 2:17I want to get up and I want to go.
- 2:20That's our job. And this job is very
- 2:22serious.
- 2:24It's hard. It is super hard and I don't
- 2:28want to be creating sense of
- 2:30hopelessness in people because I know
- 2:32there's a lot of people out there that
- 2:34don't have this. They never have. They
- 2:35don't even know what it feels like. They
- 2:37don't know how to get there if they
- 2:38don't have it. I was like this for long
- 2:41time, decades. And now I'm here much to
- 2:44my surprise. So if we don't have that
- 2:48then we our mind our emotions and our
- 2:52body kind of fall in this state of like
- 2:54listlessness this ambivalent
- 2:58confusion about what am I supposed to do
- 3:01with my time? Maybe I should just go to
- 3:04the grocery store. Maybe I should clean
- 3:07the carpet. Maybe I should finish
- 3:10watching that Netflix series that I
- 3:12never finished. Right? For a lot of
- 3:14people, what they do in these moments
- 3:17when you don't have the passion that
- 3:20makes you want to jump out of bed is
- 3:22that they fill it with numbing agents.
- 3:25Numbing agents, oftentimes called
- 3:28addictions. I prefer the term numbing
- 3:30agent because I think it's more
- 3:31descriptive.
- 3:32Covers a wider range of behaviors. So
- 3:34then what are they doing? They're doom
- 3:37scrolling. They're shopping on Amazon.
- 3:40They're binge watching Korean dramas.
- 3:43They're like, "I don't know what to do
- 3:44with my time, so I'm just going to go to
- 3:45the gym." A lot of people out there that
- 3:48have they're like super fit because they
- 3:52didn't really have any other idea what
- 3:54to do with their time, so they just say,
- 3:55"I'm just going to go hit the gym all
- 3:56the time." Awesome. Of all the possible
- 4:00numbing agents there are, that's
- 4:02probably top tier. It's probably in the
- 4:05top 2% if not 1% really because it it
- 4:09there's just so many good things about
- 4:10it. Even though it's coming from a place
- 4:12of listless, aimless lack of passion, it
- 4:15can still be it still has like good good
- 4:19benefits on the nervous system. But then
- 4:21you got the people that are like they
- 4:23start there and they say, "Well, this
- 4:25they turn it into a passion. They say,
- 4:27I'm going to become a trainer. I'm going
- 4:29to become a nutritionist. I'm going to
- 4:30open my own gym. I'm gonna go do a
- 4:33Pilates instruction, teacher, yoga
- 4:36teacher training, whatever, blah blah
- 4:38blah. Right? They make it their passion
- 4:41and then they start figuring out what
- 4:43social media works, you know, all the
- 4:46different ways of shooting videos in the
- 4:48gym so that they like look good and they
- 4:49start doing this. They start creating
- 4:51content and the whole thing starts
- 4:53momentum and then it's a cold, wet,
- 4:57rainy morning and they feel like crap
- 4:59and they say, "I've got to go today. I
- 5:04don't feel good. I'm not motivated. I
- 5:06know, but this is what I do and this is
- 5:09what I want to do and I feel good when I
- 5:12achieve some small step towards my goal
- 5:15of being a gym influencer. Is that a
- 5:18word?" Now they found it. They found
- 5:21their passion and they're engaging in
- 5:23it.
- 5:25Started with listlessness. Started with
- 5:27aimless not knowing and they've turned
- 5:30it into something. Hooray.
- 5:34Congratulate yourself.
- 5:36That's quite an accomplishment
- 5:39and it does amazing things for you, your
- 5:42body, your mind, your emotions, and your
- 5:45future relationships. Now, of course, we
- 5:47get the people that are they can't be
- 5:50emotionally present in a relationship
- 5:52because they're so obsessed with their
- 5:53gym influencing. That happens. But you
- 5:56also get people that are just like,
- 5:58"This is something I like. This is
- 6:00something I care about. This is
- 6:01something I do." And they come back and
- 6:02they try to have a healthy relationship.
- 6:04But when I mentioned the title of the
- 6:06video, I said I said something about
- 6:08lirance. Okay. What's lirance? Limrance
- 6:11is like basically romantic obsession.
- 6:14I call it relationship. OCD someone
- 6:17mentioned one time. Maybe there's
- 6:18connection there. Well, there's
- 6:20definitely connection from attachment
- 6:21point of view inside my brain, but I'm
- 6:23like other people might see them as
- 6:25different. And this is why limrance is a
- 6:29fantasy. Limrance is a preoccupation.
- 6:33Limrance functions like a passion.
- 6:38Limrance functions like that thing that
- 6:43makes me want to jump out of bed on a
- 6:45cold, dark, dreary morning when I got
- 6:47the flu.
- 6:49It creates such a strong dopamine
- 6:53anticipatory
- 6:55chemical cocktail
- 6:57that I get to feel amazing
- 7:00when I go engage with my limited object
- 7:03or I go chase after that person I'm
- 7:05obsessing over or I, you know, call them
- 7:09or stalk them on Instagram or blah blah
- 7:11blah blah blah, right? Whatever. It
- 7:13feels so good. Why? because you don't
- 7:16have anything else. And that's what I'm
- 7:19getting at here. I've actually noticed
- 7:20this quite a few times in recent
- 7:22discussions with people both online,
- 7:24offline,
- 7:26in all various forms. I've noticed these
- 7:29people that are like really dealing with
- 7:31some serious lirant obsession
- 7:34over a person or an idea or whatever,
- 7:38and then they see all these videos, they
- 7:40think I can help them with it. I can.
- 7:43And then they call me up and they're
- 7:45just like, "How do I deal with this?"
- 7:48And one of the questions I ask is like,
- 7:49"What's the rest of your life look
- 7:51like?" Like, "Well, I just I'm just not
- 7:54good at making friends and I'm I'm just
- 7:56an introvert and I'm just a blah blah
- 7:59blah blah." And it's just a list of
- 8:00justifications and excuses. Now, I get
- 8:04it. I'm so I used to make excuses like
- 8:06that. So, I get that it's hard to kind
- 8:08of transition away from that. But at the
- 8:10same time, it's still an excuse. It's
- 8:12still a way of justifying staying where
- 8:16I'm at. It's like, oh, you move to a new
- 8:19city, country, state, whatever. You
- 8:22don't really have a solid friendship
- 8:24network. Oh, you're like, oh, I've got
- 8:25this best friend. When was the last time
- 8:26you saw your best friend? It's like, oh,
- 8:28three years ago. [snorts] All right.
- 8:30That's not fulfilling attachment needs.
- 8:34So, what do you do for a close
- 8:35attachment connection? And like, uh,
- 8:39you know, some people just draw a blank.
- 8:41Some people get a dog. Some people are,
- 8:44you know, they've got some friend
- 8:46somewhere that's kind of like casual or
- 8:48whatever. The point that I'm getting at
- 8:50is that a person comes to me talking
- 8:53about problems with lirance, problems
- 8:56with romantic obsession, problems with
- 8:58not being able to get over their ex,
- 8:59problems with like this I can't eat, I
- 9:02can't sleep, I just had this breakup and
- 9:04I can't stop thinking about them. It's
- 9:06like, okay, what's the rest of your life
- 9:08look like? And they'll go da da da da
- 9:10da. and they'll talk for a while. It's
- 9:12like so basically what you're saying is
- 9:13the rest of your life is extremely empty
- 9:16from attachment point of view. Like
- 9:18you're not getting any attachment needs
- 9:20met. You're not getting any connection,
- 9:22any validation, any richness of like
- 9:25sitting down with someone over a cup of
- 9:28warm beverage and joking about like
- 9:31like you don't have that. So what do you
- 9:34do? Oh, it's like doom scroll or I watch
- 9:36YouTube or whatever. Those are not real.
- 9:39Those are not any aspect of social media
- 9:44or video consumption.
- 9:47It's either numbing the need which the
- 9:50corporations love or it is tricking your
- 9:53mind into thinking you have a social
- 9:56connection. Somebody recently asked me
- 9:57about parasocial connections. This is
- 9:59what we're talking about. Like texts,
- 10:02letters on a screen in little green
- 10:06bubble is not a human connection. That
- 10:11is pixels behind a sheet of glass that
- 10:16have we have attached certain semantic
- 10:19meaning to. So our brain interprets that
- 10:22and then it ball balloons that out into
- 10:25a big set of meaning which will then
- 10:28trick us into thinking we've got a
- 10:30connection with that person. Would not
- 10:32recommend. Did that for a while. Did
- 10:35that for a long while kind of when
- 10:36social media was first getting going and
- 10:38I first had a smartphone all that kind
- 10:39of stuff. And sometime year two years
- 10:43later, I realized that like my actual
- 10:46social life was completely empty. And
- 10:49all of it was through this like false
- 10:52medium of like texting back and forth
- 10:54and everything else. And people say,
- 10:55"Well, if I feel it, it's real, right?"
- 10:58No, actually feelings can be tricked.
- 11:02Now, what you're feeling, there is some
- 11:04aspect to emotions are real and emotions
- 11:07don't lie. So if you're feeling a sense
- 11:10of connection, you're not actually
- 11:11feeling a connection with that person.
- 11:13You're feeling a connection with the
- 11:14idea of that person. And because that
- 11:16person is not actually here with you in
- 11:19their totality of who they are, then you
- 11:22are in relation with a faximile.
- 11:26It's called a working model. Like I've
- 11:27created basically a simulation of their
- 11:29personality inside my brain. And now I
- 11:31interact with that person that
- 11:33simulation.
- 11:35And that's why people will be in these
- 11:37long-distance relationships for like
- 11:38years and years and then they finally
- 11:40meet and the relationship like instantly
- 11:41blows up. You know, they just have some
- 11:44mad sex or like, "Oh my god, we're
- 11:45finally together." Da d d d d d d d d d
- 11:46d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d
- 11:46d d d d d d d d d d d d and then you
- 11:48know first sign of conflict that's just
- 11:50like
- 11:52not always but often enough that we can
- 11:54talk about it and everybody knows what
- 11:56mean. So lirance is functioning like a
- 11:58passion and an addiction at the same
- 12:00time. Well, is there really a difference
- 12:03between a passion and addiction?
- 12:06Yes, but only in the conceptual sense.
- 12:11From a physiological biological sense,
- 12:13maybe not. But we can say just like the
- 12:16gym analogy earlier, like if you engage
- 12:20in this thing with a kind of an
- 12:22obsessive addictive passion and it
- 12:25consistently brings benefit to your
- 12:27life, then why not? Are we going to call
- 12:30it addiction? We're going to call it
- 12:31passion. Who cares? Like you're getting
- 12:33benefit from it consistently.
- 12:37Stick with it. Do that. But lirance is
- 12:39not that.
- 12:41Limrance has this dark downside.
- 12:45Romantic obsession has this downside.
- 12:49All the things that have to do with
- 12:50being hung up, stuck, fixated, whatever,
- 12:55or a person that doesn't want you or is
- 12:57gone or whatever. like that has serious
- 13:03negative cost.
- 13:05So, we're not going to say that's a good
- 13:06thing. So, now that's out of the way, we
- 13:09can say lirance is not a good thing.
- 13:11It's functioning as an addiction. And
- 13:14one of the reasons it's so powerful is
- 13:16because that part of me inside that's
- 13:20hungry for connection is
- 13:23in this giant open
- 13:26cavern of emptiness.
- 13:29Because I'm in a giant cavern of
- 13:30emptiness,
- 13:32one little person walks in with a little
- 13:34candle and my system says, "There it is.
- 13:38That's my salvation.
- 13:40This is where I'm going to put all my
- 13:41energy. This will be the passion in
- 13:44which I will pursue it because there's
- 13:48nothing else in here or what is is very
- 13:51weak. But now let's take same you
- 13:56similar situation
- 13:58but we're going to fill the cavern with
- 14:01salsa class and the cooking club and the
- 14:05mystery dinner theater that you meet up
- 14:07with those guys once a month and the
- 14:10rowing team and the you know mogi
- 14:13challenge where you're picking up rocks
- 14:15and you're carrying it six meters
- 14:17underwater like you fill your life with
- 14:21these other things that involve people.
- 14:25They involve cognitive challenge,
- 14:29physical challenge, and probably
- 14:30emotional challenge just because you're
- 14:32going to run into people you don't like.
- 14:34Now, we're going to fill the cavern. We
- 14:36don't have to fill it. We just give it
- 14:38like, you know, head level of people,
- 14:43places, things, interactions,
- 14:45stuff, opportunities.
- 14:48you there's a event over here that you
- 14:50there's 30 people that you see every
- 14:52week and another 30 people that are new
- 14:55every week and there's so there's
- 14:56constant cycle through and it's like oh
- 14:58hi who are you what's your story why are
- 15:00you here hey you want to dance salsa
- 15:02like if that's in your life you're
- 15:05filling up your cavern you got a dinner
- 15:08you know cooking class over here where
- 15:09you're learning how to cook you know
- 15:11Asian stir fry you know 20 different
- 15:14ways that class has other people in it
- 15:17as a teacher as you know spilling the
- 15:21bottle of oil and it flows across the
- 15:23counter and people are working together
- 15:25like get it all cleaned up. That's a
- 15:27real social engagement. And believe it
- 15:31or not, that fills this empty cavern or
- 15:34the cavern that was empty is now filling
- 15:36up with people and places and things and
- 15:38everything else. And then that person
- 15:40comes walking in with their candle, your
- 15:42lirant object. And it is not as
- 15:45powerful. It is not as radiant. It is
- 15:48not as overwhelming because you're like,
- 15:50"Oh, I've got other things. I've got
- 15:53other people. I don't need that one for
- 15:57salvation. I do not need that one for
- 15:59safety. I do not need that one to
- 16:02finally get my needs for wanted, chosen,
- 16:04and prioritized filled." And then the
- 16:08lirance is less or non-existent. Usually
- 16:12if I live in a world where I believe
- 16:17I'm unwanted, I believe I'm
- 16:19unattractive. I believe that no one will
- 16:22like me or choose me as so many people
- 16:26believe. And then one person shows up.
- 16:29That's the thing about limiting objects.
- 16:31They almost never choose you. They're
- 16:33just the fantasy of being chosen by
- 16:36them. But if I'm living in this world
- 16:38where I feel like I'm not going to get
- 16:41anybody that I want or the kind of
- 16:44people that I like don't like me back or
- 16:46whatever,
- 16:48then you pick this person. Maybe, you
- 16:52know, maybe they're just some fantasy on
- 16:53TV and then your system starts to obsess
- 16:56about them. What is it actually doing?
- 16:58It's not about them. It's literally it's
- 17:00not about them at all.
- 17:02It's about while I'm in the lirant
- 17:05fantasy, I get to dream. I get to
- 17:08fantasize. I get to play out these
- 17:10little scenarios in my mind about what
- 17:13it would feel like to be chosen
- 17:16completely by someone who's that
- 17:19valuable.
- 17:21And that creates really really strong
- 17:24endogenous chemical states. Meaning big
- 17:28powerful chemical cocktail squirts out
- 17:30of various things, organs inside my
- 17:34brain and other bits. Squirts out all
- 17:37these chemicals and those chemicals come
- 17:38along and hit various parts of the brain
- 17:40and they lock into the neuro receptors
- 17:42and they stimulate them all with like
- 17:44happy, pleasure, joy, feelings. And the
- 17:47person's like, "Oh my god, this feels so
- 17:49amazing. I did all that because your
- 17:52cavern is empty. Now, it's still
- 17:55possible to have friends and family and
- 17:58connections and everything else and
- 18:00still have problems with limrant
- 18:02obsession. I've definitely met people
- 18:04that fit into this category. But if you
- 18:07look at if you do an investigation and
- 18:09you scrutinize the quality of the
- 18:12various relationships in their life, you
- 18:13realize that they're all empty. They're
- 18:15flat, shallow, maybe that's the better
- 18:18word. They are lowrisk,
- 18:20low investment relationships.
- 18:23Yeah, I see Bobby every week. I go to
- 18:25the climbing gym. Yeah, he's like one of
- 18:28my best friends. Do you know Bobby's
- 18:30last name? Yeah, sure. It's like Jordan
- 18:33Freud. Yeah. You don't know Bobby's last
- 18:35name? Do you know the name of Bobby's
- 18:37wife? Um,
- 18:41do you know can you name one thing that
- 18:45Bobby is afraid of? No. Why would I know
- 18:48that? Yeah, that's a that's an empty
- 18:51relationship. That's something that's a
- 18:53that's an acquaintance. That's someone
- 18:55you do things with, which is cool, but
- 18:59don't go believing that that's any kind
- 19:01of deep relationship. Quantity of
- 19:04frequency of seeing someone has no
- 19:06impact on the depth of that
- 19:08relationship. You see your co-workers
- 19:10every day for like 10 years and you
- 19:14don't know jack about them. That's how I
- 19:16lived for a long time. So I'm giving all
- 19:18these examples when I pretty much
- 19:19already made my point. And the point is
- 19:21this that like if you are operating a
- 19:25life that is devoid of passion, devoid
- 19:28of purpose, meaning something that
- 19:30you're pursuing that is filling your
- 19:33life with a drive and a passion and then
- 19:37in the process connecting with lots of
- 19:39people along the way. Then you're more
- 19:43prone to romantic obsession, limit
- 19:47fantasies, and breakup distress.
- 19:50Okay, great Kirby. Well, that sucks
- 19:53because I don't have any meaning or
- 19:54purpose in my life and I don't know what
- 19:56to do about it. How does one find
- 19:59meaning and purpose? Good question. I
- 20:02asked the same thing for years and years
- 20:03and years. And this simple answer that
- 20:07one teacher told me was like, well then
- 20:09that is your meaning of purpose. your
- 20:11meaning and purpose. The thing that you
- 20:13want to jump out of bed on the cold,
- 20:16wet, dreary morning is to go find your
- 20:20meaning and purpose. Go find something
- 20:22you care about and don't let it be
- 20:24anything that's a numbing agent. Okay.
- 20:26Well, people hear that and say like,
- 20:28"Well, okay. So, how do I do that? I'm
- 20:31just supposed to wander around the world
- 20:32until I find something." Turns out
- 20:34that's pretty close. But my more
- 20:37specific advice on that is that it's
- 20:39like here's your job and you do it like
- 20:45your life depends on it because it turns
- 20:47out it does. And your job is every
- 20:49single week you need to do something
- 20:51new, some new experience, a new event, a
- 20:55new task. And the requirement is it has
- 20:59to involve other people. It is better if
- 21:02there's a shared goal like building a
- 21:05house or serving food or you know a
- 21:08dancing fits like it's like can we get
- 21:10through the dance without stepping on
- 21:11each other's toes. So it has to involve
- 21:14other people that you actually interact
- 21:16with.
- 21:17It's better if there's a shared purpose.
- 21:20It has to be mentally emotionally and
- 21:24physically taxing. Let's do make it
- 21:26easy. We'll do two out of three. So
- 21:29emotionally and physical. emotional,
- 21:31mental, or mental and physical. So, it
- 21:33has to pick two of those three, meaning
- 21:36it has to be hard,
- 21:39challenging, and you get bonus points if
- 21:43going there feels scary because that's
- 21:46going to pay off in good ways, too.
- 21:47That's increasing your capacities for
- 21:49stress across all domains, which is a
- 21:51great great thing that we do. So, that's
- 21:53it. Every week, you plan it ahead of
- 21:56time. Like you hear this video and if
- 21:59you're serious about it, you'll you will
- 22:00go out there and you will get it planned
- 22:02out and you'll have three months. That's
- 22:0512 events. You're gonna have 12 events
- 22:08in your life that you're just going to
- 22:09be like, I don't know what the hell this
- 22:12is all about, but this crazy random guy
- 22:14on the internet told me I should do
- 22:15this. And so I'm going to a basket
- 22:17weaving class.
- 22:19And I'm like, I don't know what I would
- 22:22ever use basket weaving for. Does not
- 22:25matter. You don't have to like it. You
- 22:28don't have to. Doesn't have to fit with
- 22:31any aspect of who you think you are. It
- 22:33just has to be new, different, and
- 22:35involve people and some kind of
- 22:37challenge. So, it's like, oh, picking up
- 22:40trash or yeah, basket weaving, dancing
- 22:43class, you know, going to some class on
- 22:4715th century like French poetry. You're
- 22:50like, why am I here? It's like you're
- 22:52here because it's different. You're here
- 22:54because there's other people there and
- 22:56they're speaking French and your brain's
- 22:57going to be cooked. Good. That's exactly
- 23:00what you want. Why?
- 23:03Because every experience you do has an
- 23:07opportunity has will have many
- 23:09opportunities involved with it where you
- 23:11find something. You discover something
- 23:13about yourself. You're like, "Wow,
- 23:16that sounds really cool. I had no idea I
- 23:18liked French poetry. I don't even speak
- 23:20French, but I love the way it sounds."
- 23:22And then pretty soon you're interested
- 23:24and pretty soon you're watching YouTube
- 23:26videos and pretty soon you're doing this
- 23:27and this and this and this and then you
- 23:29know before you know it you're like
- 23:31traveling to France on some kind of you
- 23:33know cultural exploration trip and then
- 23:36you meet someone else that's doing the
- 23:38same thing and like oh my god we're
- 23:39totally aligned. Do you want to walk for
- 23:40together for a while?
- 23:43You know year and a half later you're
- 23:45making babies. It can happen. So we do
- 23:48the new things one to create the
- 23:50opportunity for us to expand
- 23:53into unknown territory. So we learn
- 23:55about things we like, things we don't
- 23:57like. And then it is also on the other
- 24:00side, it is the challenge of pushing
- 24:03myself into the unknown. Because the
- 24:05more unknowns you push yourself into,
- 24:07the less unknown it feels. The less
- 24:10unknown it is. You're like, "Oh, well, I
- 24:13did the French 15th century po French
- 24:16poetry class. Now I'm doing the 13th
- 24:18century Viking sonnet class." And you
- 24:21know what? They're kind of the same. And
- 24:24you're like, "Well, that's kind of wild.
- 24:26It doesn't It's like I've been here,
- 24:27done this, and you only have to go once.
- 24:30I mean, twice if you like it." Uh,
- 24:33actually, twice. If it's challenging and
- 24:35you're really up for it, then you go
- 24:37twice. And if you like it, then you go
- 24:39three times. So, this does not guarantee
- 24:42you will find your passion. I wish it
- 24:45did. But you know what it does? It fills
- 24:47up your time. It fills up your cavern.
- 24:51It connects you with lots of people.
- 24:53Suddenly, you're doing all sorts of
- 24:54crazy and you're just like, "Whoa,
- 24:56what's happening in my life? Why am I
- 24:58here? What's happening? I'm on trips or
- 25:01engaged in activities or weaving baskets
- 25:04or whatever that I never thought I would
- 25:05do."
- 25:07And look at me go. And then you take a
- 25:10moment and you think back on to that
- 25:12person that you were like romantically
- 25:13liantly obsessed over and the obsession
- 25:16is less. And that's very consistent.
- 25:20Not always, but very consistent. You
- 25:23fill your life with other stuff, and the
- 25:25pain and misery you feel for lirant
- 25:28romantic obsession decreases.
- 25:31And eventually, if you're reading
- 25:33between the lines and following along,
- 25:36you realize that all those emotions
- 25:38about that person you were deliberately
- 25:39obsessed over were just filler.
- 25:43It was never real to begin with. In
- 25:45fact, no aspect of it was real. It was
- 25:47just your brain being like, "I'm
- 25:50starving. Give me something
- 25:53and then it picks the judge Judy or
- 25:56whatever, whoever your obsession is. It
- 25:59just picks one and then obsesses over
- 26:02it." So, it's got something to do with
- 26:04its time. Yeah. Try it out.
- 26:08Leave comments. Tell us how it goes. In
- 26:12fact, if you want accountability, come
- 26:14right here. Post a comment down there.
- 26:17Say, "Day one, week one, I'm doing
- 26:20this."
- 26:21And then respond to that comment. Week
- 26:23two, week three, week four. Tell us what
- 26:25you're doing. We're going to have little
- 26:27contests about who's doing the wackiest
- 26:29as part of this challenge. And
- 26:33I don't know, we'll have a vote or
- 26:34something. And if one of them seriously
- 26:37impresses me, I don't know, we'll do
- 26:38something. We'll celebrate in some way,
- 26:41give you some free stuff or something.
- 26:44But you got to impress me. And I've done
- 26:46some crazy stuff in my life. So, it's
- 26:48going to take a lot to impress me. But
- 26:50I've been impressed before. I've met
- 26:52people that like day one, step one, they
- 26:56go hard. And I'm like, "Oh my god, I
- 26:59wouldn't do I I don't have the courage
- 27:01to do do what you just did." Congrats,
- 27:03man. So, it happens.
- 27:07Do it.
- 27:09Peace.
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