Self-harm isn’t just about physically hurting ourselves. It is also when we live unconsciously, chasing goals given to us by society and family.
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Self-harm isn’t just about physically hurting ourselves. It is also when we live unconsciously, chasing goals given to us by society and family.
Nobody wakes up and decides to suffer. Nobody intentionally chooses self-harm. Whatever we do: whether it’s entering a toxic relationship, numbing ourselves with entertainment, tolerating a dead-end job, or drowning in addictions, we do it hoping it will bring some relief, some pleasure, some sense of meaning. Even our worst choices are made in the belief that they’ll somehow help us.
But that’s precisely the problem: we don’t see clearly. We call our compulsions love. We call our conditioning freedom. We call our coping mechanisms healing. What we’re really doing is acting out of ignorance. What the sages called avidya: a deep ignorance of who we are and what we truly need.
Self-harm isn’t just about physically hurting ourselves. It is also when we live unconsciously, chasing goals given to us by society and family. It’s when we follow pre-conditioned desires and make harmful decisions, thinking they are wise. It’s when we act as per our base impulses and call them intuition. And after all this, when things fall apart, we wonder what went wrong.
