All the religions and saints teach us to get rid of our emotions, passions and attachments, so thatw e don't get hurt. The only challenge is that if you give up everything, you have to give up pleasure as well. I can understnad this approach. What I want to know is how do I only get rid of sadness or things which hurt and retain the carnal pleasures
02/09/2012
I really admire artists of any sort. Actors, musicians, painters, writers. They have to ability to let go off everything for their passion. The success rate is low but the successful ones lead a much fuller life I guess. Though don't know why so many of them commit suicide
Also, this habit is what makes me kind of weak and cynical
The habit of analysing things is one of the greatest diseases that a person can have.Some people (like me) have a habit of analysing everything and trying to get some co relation with something and then find some causality. What does all this lead to? A sense of self worthlessness
We are bitter about our career and feel that others with lesser abilities are doing better than this, about relationships as we feel we deserve a better person, about looks, physique, money, clothes even holidays. Whenever we see happy people the bitterness comes out and we try to find out why the other person is happy while we are not. Normally what we conclude has got nothing to do with what the other person is happy about (assuming he / she is) but what we lack.
Why is it that most of us lead a life of bitterness most of the time? People are bitter (broadly) because they feel they do not get what they deserve and someone else does
They say that whenever you are stressed, you should talk to someone you are close to about what is bothering you and you feel good about it. I feel it does not work with me. Either I am scared that if I open up I will in a way become the other person's slave (As if he or she cares) or I inherently lack the ability to get close to someone or let someone get close to me
I have concluded something. However smart I think I am I lack mental strength. There are lot of situations when I have been tested. And all the times I took the path of least resistance. Not that it has worked against me always. It is because of this that I have led a safe life, but it keeps hurting me. But when I look retrospectively, most of my gut feelings were right. it's just that I did not have the ability to wait patiently and fight it out
