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This is for everyone who have a problem they are thinking about. You're probably aware of your own problem, or you would not be here or on any other forum talking about it. You're self sufficient enough to realize the potential "what ifs" that could happen if you do one thing or another to solve it.
Actually you're the most qualified person here to know that.
Life works in a way where we're spending most of the time actually fighting ourselves. Keep that in mind for the rest of this.
If the problem is your own, I want to tell you that your actions are who you are. You have many thoughts and ideas, and sometimes you make a decision. It's an awesome moment where you clearly see what something is good for and why you should do something. But you have to take action to reach that end.
You won't always continue to see or feel that reasoning as clearly. Time passes and we all become numb to the 'usual'. Even if you eat something with the same flavor for an extended period you'll loose the freshness of the taste.
If you don't see things clearly yet, keep thinking. Be as vivid in your thinking as you can, but don't focus on "I have to think vividly about my problem". Focus on the many nuances of your problem. What started the problem is sometimes helpful, but not the end all be all of solving your condition. If the actions of another person sent you into peril, killing that person will not change your current behavior unless you're being directly oppressed and clearly manipulated on a day to day basis.
The actions that yield the most positive change are usually the hardest to make. Functionality and ease of use is a principle in design. We all have this thing in our nature that it has to be as easy as possible to do something.
But the big change is the hard way. Go for the long term. It makes perfect sense that if you feel terribly bad you should take a terribly large step to reach the other side and feel terribly well.
The easy thing is to go for the short term, forget your problems and make them go away by using whatever compulsive behavior. Maybe you'll spend excessive hours inside an MMORPG, waste all your time on 4chan's /b/, powerfap until it hurts, YouTube the night away.
"Hypereasy" mode is going for the really freaking short term. Kill yourself. It's so easy compared to an extended period of time getting comfortable with your new self, making a habit of your new actions, that most people can't do it. So go ahead and speed full throttle away from existence, leaving everyone or most people in your life feeling like charred roadkills. If there's an afterlife it won't change who you are.
You should NOT worry about what your friends think. Usually, the ones you will loose if you make too radical a change to your life are the ones you don't want to keep anyway. Think about it. They're like the DRM locking you into a lifestyle of unhappiness. The flexible friends that stick by you no matter what, that love you and stay with you through the process. How much more of a value won't those friends have after? A process like that strengthens all of you.
If you take the required actions and it turns out you have NO friends left. Then how great isn't it you're moving out of the quicksand? It must feel like you've been rooted to an area and are now able to go out and explore the world. I know it did to me.
If your problem is with someone else having a problem (maybe your friend is suicidal or on drugs), you can not always help them by your own actions.
But when to help or when not to help, it has to be measured on an individual basis, and you're the protagonist, you have the best possibility of being wise enough to do that.
> If there's an afterlife it won't change who you are.
That's a pretty big if.
Vague, general garble.
> But when to help or when not to help, it has to be measured on an individual basis, and you're the protagonist, you have the best possibility of being wise enough to do that.
No duh. Stop trying to write deep zen-like shit.