I think there are a number of ways you can do it, some are probably better than others but I don't really know, I haven't quite tried them all yet.
Some us are golden boys/girls. We do everything we're supposed to and we do it right. We don't make career mistakes, we're successful, we have lots of friends that reinforce our beliefs that we are good and we are worthy. We're the ones that win the awards and get the recognition we need. We rely on life being a mirror that reflects back what we want to see, but we rarely look past the mirror.
Some of us are servants. We exist to help other people, we are activists whose primary goal is to change the world and make it a better place. We get so involved in fighting the problems of the world so that we can live contentedly in our privileged and comfortable bubbles. We take solace in knowing that we've somehow created some semblance of balance in world that's so incredibly inegalitarian.
Some of us are medicated. We see psychiatrists who prescribe various pharmaceuticals in various dosages and rotate between any number of psychotropic drugs so that we can feel "ok". We sit, and we observe the world as it is, and see the people around us and how they treat each other. Seeing everything for what it is creates a sort of emptiness and powerlessness, and since we were never able to pull of being the golden boys or girls or the servants, we turn to medication. We are prescribed happiness, focus, and sleep. We are prescribed an unawareness to our situation and to the situation of the world.
And then, of course, some of us don't live with ourselves.
