There is no lifestyle that can completely resolve human anxiety.
Freedom is not the answer, it can amplify emptiness.
Many people think that quitting their job will free them from anxiety, that being in a relationship will free them from anxiety, that making money will free them from anxiety.
But the reality is often that the excitement after each achievement quickly fades, and new emptiness will rise again.
You quit your job, but the anxiety did not disappear; you moved to your ideal city, but it feels just so-so; you have a relationship, yet still have moments of feeling misunderstood.
The feeling of emptiness is a normal state for people. Living for interest does not mean you will love every day; building intimate relationships cannot completely ward off loneliness.
When there are no external compulsion requirements in life, the sense of aimlessness between oneself and the world becomes more intense.
So-called ideal life may just be an illusion in the aesthetic sense.
Social media has many templates for an ideal life: drinking tea and writing in Kyoto, drying white shirts in Italy, dancing in an apartment in Paris.
These types of scenes are charming because they have filters and distance.
But when you actually arrive in these places, emptiness will come as expected. You realize the real problem is not where I am, but that no matter where I am, I still don't know who I am.
The reason people feel empty is not because they lack a good life, but because we have to face an unavoidable truth: this world does not provide us with a solid meaning tailored for us; we can only give it meaning ourselves.
And this process of giving is a long and internal labor. It is not a multiple-choice question about lifestyle, but an open-ended question that probes the self.
In the past, I was anxious because I thought every discomfort must have a solution. When emotions arise, they need to be adjusted; when relationships falter, they need to be repaired; when work is overwhelming, it must improve immediately.
But later I found out that some problems do not have quick solutions. For example, loneliness, self-doubt, and the hollowness of life's meaning. The more you rush to get rid of it, the more it lingers around you.
The more you cling to becoming a certain kind of person, the more likely you are to make your current self unacceptable. And the more gently you regard your current self, the easier it is to move forward.
Emptiness is not an enemy to be defeated. It is precisely because you are not a completely numb person that you can perceive this nameless void. And every moment of emptiness reminds us to listen, to see, and to delve into those unclear parts.
The moment you truly stop being anxious is not after getting an answer, but in realizing that the answer itself does not exist. True vitality does not exist in reaching the destination, but in the internal tension that is currently breaking free.
So later I began to allow anxiety and treat it as a precursor to renewing myself and an entry point to creativity.
It’s not about choosing the right profession, the right city, or the right person that leads to a peaceful outcome.
Not every path leads to clear meaning.
Not every stage of life has standard actions and perfect scripts.
I no longer expect life to eventually become stable one day. I also no longer expect a person, a career, or a choice to completely eliminate my emptiness. I began to understand that the fantasy of reaching the other shore is the root of our anxiety.
The world is changing, people are changing, relationships are changing, bodies are changing. Unrest is not that my life has gone wrong, but that it is flowing.
When you stop asking someone to give you a perfect answer sheet, you begin to truly write your own story.
When you no longer resist that unfinished, unarrived, unnamed state, and establish your own center amidst the turbulence, you gain the freedom to resonate with life.
Brothers need to understand that reflecting these thoughts about life, anxiety, and emptiness onto trading is interconnected: there is no 'perfect model' in trading that solves everything at once, do not cling to a particular strategy or market point to completely eliminate risk anxiety.
The market is constantly changing, volatility is the norm, allow uncertainty to exist, and accept that every trade may not be perfect.
Stopping anxiety is not about finding eternal answers, but about understanding that trading is inherently full of unknown tensions, anchoring your rhythm in the 'unfinished' of the market, not resisting volatility, not demanding absolute profits, and resonating with the market to grasp the true freedom of trading.