The Individual Is Taught That

I Would Have Liked Having Children To Some Degree, But Frankly I Haven't Got The Time To Take The Kids To The Goddamn Ballgame.

Attempts To Help Humans Eliminate All Self-ratings And Views Self-esteem As A Self-defeating Concept That Encourages Them To Make Conditional Evaluations Of Self. Instead, It Teaches People Unconditional Self-acceptance.

Eating Is Always A Decision, Nobody Forces Your Hand To Pick Up Food And Put It Into Your Mouth.

This, Perhaps, Goes To Show That Conditional Self-esteem, As I Have Said For Many Years, Is An Insidious, Real Sickness, So Much So That Even Buddhists Carelessly Sneak It In And Sometimes Encourage Their Clients To Achieve It.

Life Is Indeed Difficult, Partly Because Of The Real Difficulties We Must Overcome In Order To Survive, And Partly Because Of Our Own Innate Desire To Always Do Better, To Overcome New Challenges, To Self-actualize. Happiness Is Experienced Largely In Striving Towards A Goal, Not In Having Attained Things, Because Our Nature Is Always To Want To Go On To The Next Endeavor.