What if your goals are a safe fake?

The following is a comment made by Yohami to one of my posts. Truly worthwhile information about the deceptive dynamics of the Ego.

“Often the goal projected in the future is about obtaining something you lack, the underlying goal thus being to fix your ego and therefore make you happy somehow.

The problem with this approach is usually that an unhappy ego cannot do the necessary work to make itself happy: the ego´s survival mechanisms resist change, meaning that the more the hurt ego is put in motion, the more it produces even more hurt ego. By committing yourself to the existence of the hurt/incomplete ego which needs a fix, you only reaffirm a hurt/incomplete ego which needs a fix.

Ego can visualise a future where everything works, because the future doesn´t exist. Projecting something in the future is an evasion from now, and evading this present moment, is the…