The Disturbing Theory About Life That Gives Me Goose Bumps Every Time I Think About It

I have a theory that everything in life is fiction. And here’s a short list of thoughts on that. <ol> <li>That’s why storytelling and psychoanalysis are so powerful; we look for narratives that make us feel better.</li> <li>Defining yourself is fiction; it’s thinking of yourself from one perspective or another.</li> <li>Success is a fiction.</li> <li>An idea is fiction that becomes a vision if many people buy and buy into it.</li> <li>Getting a job depends on the HR person buying your definition of yourself during the interview, aka the story you tell them.</li> <li>We chase dreams that are fiction until they materialize. And then we look for a new plan, another new novel to pursue.</li> <li>Hope is a fiction. You need to tell yourself things that haven’t happened yet but that you imagine you’ll be better off with to motivate you to keep going.</li> <li>Anguish is a fiction you make up about something that hasn’t happened but could happen.</li> <li>Romantic love is born from the idealization of a person and the projection of the expected future, which is fiction.</li> <li>Victimhood is a fiction of something with which we suggest ourselves to gain understanding, empathy, and affection from others.</li> <li>The assumptions we make about things and people are fictions with which our mind fills in the gaps of things it does not know about a particular person or event.</li> </ol> <a href="https://medium.com/the-philosophical-inn/the-disturbing-theory-about-life-that-gives-me-goose-bumps-every-time-i-think-about-it-68db8b4bb870">Read More</a>