"GOING WITH THE FLOW"

Everyone must long for a peaceful life free from problems. How to live a peaceful life? Maybe that is my motivation to write this when imagining my dream life in the future.

As a religious person, I certainly know the concept of living peacefully based on religious guidance, but maybe I have not been able to apply it in my daily life, so I am adrift with extraordinary suffering because my heart and mind continue to think about tomorrow and so on. Maybe that is a person's anxiety so that they do not find happiness in their lives. It is true, the concept of happiness in religion is about how to be grateful and accept what God has given.

Can a life free from suffering be achieved by eliminating all desires in life? By letting life flow naturally. Maybe not everyone can live like that, because there is a difference between a person who lets his life flow naturally with his awareness and a person who surrenders to a state that has no purpose.

A person who consciously lets life flow is a person who has tried first, has passed the first phase in life which means he must start and determine first where his life will go. This is the first phase.

After passing the first phase, the goal has been determined, the person must enter the second phase, which is to try and pursue all the dreams and hopes that have been targeted so far. After he tried his best and succeeded, it turned out that his happy feelings were not as imagined and there was still emptiness in his heart.

After understanding and going through the three phases above, he just came to the conclusion that life should be let alone. There is a term that says that "going with the flow" is actually a paradoxical advice to cancel what has been lived. It means after trying very hard to pursue something even to the highest point but not getting satisfaction, and there is still emptiness in the heart as if what has been achieved is not complete.