"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live."~ Carl Jung
Monday, 22 September 2025
Your "unlived life"
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Jung was very right, on this point at least. A common way it manifests is a victim mentality, blaming your misfortune on people and circumstances you can’t control, whilst refusing to confront and take on the things you can control. Closely related is the practice of doom-scrolling - seeing all the negatives and problems in a situation, whilst ignoring the positives and/or opportunity to avoid the negatives.
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