Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The comment

Hey, so as promised today I’ll go back to a previous post due to a comment that deserves to be integrated into the thought line. Here it is:
"I don't agree that we're complaining about nothing. I'm not stupid, i realise there are millions of people in the world who are far far worse off than me...but everything is relative and our own problems are always going to be the most important problems in our lives. I think that comparing to others is a bad idea...it just makes me feel selfish for feeling bad, and then i feel even worse and even more depressed. i think putting my problems into perspective is pretty much the worst thing i can do..."
Firstly just want to point out this quote from my previous post, “The fact is our problems are always the biggest in the world, and we ignore when hurting other worlds, of other people who are in real pain. ", it should state: "The fact is our problems are always the biggest in the world, and we ignore when other worlds are hurting, of other people who are in real pain. ". The fact is we don't ignore other worlds because we are bad people, but pain has a way of catching your attention. Our mind works in a very curious way, think about it, if you cut yourself what will you think about? Like in a nice comedy I saw once, forgot which one, a guy is complaining that he cut himself and it hurts, another guy asks do you want the pain to your hand to stop? the guy goes yes, so the other guy shoots him in the leg, screaming in pain the one that got shoot ask are you fucking crazy, getting the answer your hand doesn't hurt anymore does it?
A funny way to look at something simple, you pay attention to the pain at hand, that one it hurts you, it would be bizarre if it wasn't like this, which might happen but that would be another story about higher morals and values...
Now towards the comment, why feel selfish? Because we are acting human? What is this need to be better than human? From the fact we are human :P...
Quite redundant, the question I open up is this, how do you move on from pain? fact is we get hurt, and we do move on, even if things remain the same, so how do we move on?(answer in the next lines :P)
I do agree with the comment, potentially feeling worst might happen when putting things in perspective, but the fact is, eventually it will have to happen, either with other people, or simply with parts of our own history, this is how you are able to rationalize things and move on. If you do this in balance, not too soon, so you give yourself the chance to hurt, but not too late, so you don't suffer more than what you have to. When the pain starts its impossible to even consider reasoning, you have a mourning period, and then you should give yourself the chance to put things in perspective, however you choose to do this...
Now, just not to disappoint people that have a certain image of me, if you hit rock bottom the only way is up, dealing with our human nature's flaws is better than dealing with your own pain, if you have no rabbits in your hat to make you get out of your hole. Sometimes destroying all views to your problems is the only way out, making yourself look ridiculous might be easier to deal with than the real indefinable problems of your own existence... or not...

1 comment:

Sarah said...

Believe it or not, i've decided to turn over a new leaf. i was talking to a friend the other day and he made me think... we are already a quarter of the way through our life, maybe even a third, or a half..who knows when we're going to die. but the fact is that i don't want to go through my life being miserable and letting small things get me down. from now on i want to be a more optimistic person and find the positive in everything. after all, every cloud has a silver lining. what's the point in living if we only focus on the negative? so we shouldn't regret anything, we should learn from our mistakes but then move on and make the most of whatever opportunities we get, rather than sitting around all day moping about how much our life sucks...