My views on leadership

I'm writing this post for a future me that hopefully will know more. The point is to have specific ideas laid out that I could later judge based on what I have or haven't achieved.

The purpose of a leader is to unite people into a big push, that would be unachievable to any member alone. As such, leaders (or groups) are not inherently needed in every project.
A successful leader has to understand multiple things better than other members:
1. What needs to be done in the project; how to measure whether people are doing the right thing. 2. The things that motivate the people working on this project, because not everyone is as much a fanatic as the spiritual leader likely is. 

I should make this post longer, but frankly I am very tired and still have to do more things today.

Haunted by perfection

Vying for perfection, I have lost my way. Am I myself anymore, if I can no longer feel as much?
Sure, my emotions are real and strong. But they don't seem right anymore.
I'm sifting through my memories to find a clue of what went wrong.
Somewhat I've always been a bit different. I believe this is fine.
However, I have become too distant to the people around me. It's simply not right to tie my life so closely with others. But then again, I also shouldn't be such a sociophobic person.
There has to be a middle ground and I will find it.

I've also started to go back in my youtube favourites. On my way I found a song that I had forgotten, but still dearly love.

Is there hope for me to feel real again, or am I bound to wander the depths of my mind? I wish I knew.

For a very long time I have tried to understand why I am here. What am I supposed to be doing? I feel that there are great deeds to be done, but in trying to find out what is my ultimate purpose, I have seemingly moved farther from it. I feel that what I'm doing is wrong, but my mind keeps telling me it's right.
I guess one of my poetic lines has now come back to me "Oh baby, your life is a mess".

A person has to live, not to think endlessly about how to do things better. I have now realized that one of my greatest faults has been not using my chances as much as I should.
Yes, it is indeed necessary to think deeply about things. At least for me.
However, this should never be more important than actually doing things. It is wrong to fall into introspection when everything is going fine. Yet, so I have done.

Perhaps someday I'll be a good person? There are people who would say that I already am. But I don't feel so anymore. I feel lost, despite technically achieving more than ever.

I also now know it is wrong to think so much about the shadows in my mind. It only makes them worse. Yes, I must deal with them, but not through giving them my life.
The shadows, they are a necessary evil. Without darkness, one can't see the light. However, darkness is still destructive to the mind of anyone who wants to conquer it.

Time to live.

Elegia

Am I a great soul, or is it just an illusion? If I am, then does it mean that greatness must always come through suffering?

Am I a great soul, or is it just an illusion? If I am, then does it mean that greatness must always come through suffering?

Oh how messy is life...

We all wish for love. Yet, few actually get it. Some don't know that they want it. Some have simply lost hope. Still, we all need it.

Some time ago, there used to be a person in my life, whom I now miss so dearly. Just this one person. I have many muses, most of them silent by now. Yet, only this specific one matters to me anymore. 
I wish for this one person to come back to my life. This one person who knows my soul better than I do and would now have the right to change it. 

/Take me apart, put me back together. If you survive it, then you're the one. - Me @ here.

Mental weariness (how I was wrong)

I have often thought that one of my biggest problems is the inability to not think. Essentially this is true and thus I was, for a long time, not able to see the problem clearly.
It is true, that I am unable to avoid thinking at least most of the time, but it is not because I've already spent all my energy. It is because I have spent half of it.

This creates a situation where I feel like doing something, but am unable to do anything that is actually complicated. Basically, I am tired, but not enough to actually force my mind to rest.
Due to this reason, I have needed to practice meditation before most big efforts. Meditation allows me to shut down my thoughts for a while, so I can gather some strength.

The weakness of meditation is that it requires actively perceiving myself, which is not so easy to do all the time. It doesn't specifically take energy, but it does take concentration.

Anyways, I have once again learned something about myself. Maybe it will delay my eventual insanity?

/There is little need for knowledge, but a lot of need for understanding. We already have enough knowledge for most of our needs, but too many have forgot how to understand. Me@Here.

Time and Thought

My motivations have always been based on some lacking qualities of others. This forces me to do something that is actually useful to people. However, it also means that I have a hard time with anyone who doesn't actually need me. I don't want to be a burden and thus, I choose to stay back as things happen around me.
As a mage, I put a lot of emphasis on the importance of understanding and the cost in time that it means. That makes me act slow or rushed when time is pressing on. However, it also allows me to solve problems and understand ideas that few others can.
Due to those things, I sometimes rush into the action and get smashed. This has made me very cautious and created a drive in me to take more time whenever things get tough. However, it too has it's disadvantages. I can be caught in a never-ending loop of taking more time, but failing to finish things due to more responsibilities piling up. I need time, but I don't always get it.

Questions are just disguised lies

I see a world. A world without words. Is this life? Is this death?
Do I see meaning, or is it just an illusion? A life of lies is not even an illusion.
What are words without truth? What is silence without darkness?
What is darkness, if not truth? What are words, if not noise?
There are no words that can truly say something. Words can never be enough.

Is there feeling without lies? Is there knowledge without deceit?
Nothing is ever perfect. Nothing is ever simple - Never, what it seems.

There is only darkness.

Shadows in my mind

The shadows in me are gathering. For a long time, I thought that my misery comes from some strange kind of superiority. However, as it seems now, it has been nothing more but self-deceit. There is something that I've been hiding from myself and now it's tearing me apart. This is the ultimate reason why I lack almost any kind of motivation at the moment. I have lost balance.

However, I will still try my best to achieve. My mind may be infested by horrors, but not my will. For some strange reason, I'm purposefully trying to develop attacker traits in myself.

/Knowledge is just another illusion for making us lazy. - Me @ Here.