wetheliving
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Enlightenment
I guess we’re all here on this site to learn something about life and how to live it in a successful way, all of course in a quest to make ourselves happier.
What I’ve found at as you get a bit older and you learn to better analyse a situation and you learn to react more rational instead of emotional to situations, you will get to a point where you become almost too rational and I guess it raises the bar when it comes to experiencing great joy and great sadness or anger.
For Example:
Girls dumps you :
old emotional reaction: depressed and disappointed
new rational reaction: plenty more fish in the sea, it’s her loss
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
job interview rejection:
old emotional reaction: depressed and disappointed
new rational reaction: I’m smart, I can get another job in no time
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
favourite soccer team loses:
old emotional reaction: depressed and disappointed
new rational reaction: it’s ok, there’s another game next week or next month
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
but also:
You like a girl:
old emotional reaction: butterflies in your stomach in no time
new rational reaction: she’s nice, but there are other girls, she’s not perfect
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
Now I guess this is what you call wisdom. You’re now able to react to situations by analysing what’s going on by using your new found wisdom. I guess that’s part of being wise, I mean the stereotypical old wise man is hardly the most spectacular and impulsive person, but the downside is that it’s tough to completely let go and just let yourself be controlled by your emotions,.
They always say that love is the most intense when you’re sixteen or seventeen years old, I guess they say that because that’s when you lack wisdom and the ability to put things in perspective and you just react so intensely and emotional to things.
Now I wouldn’t want to go back to my days of pre-enlightenment, but it would be nice to not be so analytical all the time. Has anyone else experienced this, or does anyone have any solutions?
I guess we’re all here on this site to learn something about life and how to live it in a successful way, all of course in a quest to make ourselves happier.
What I’ve found at as you get a bit older and you learn to better analyse a situation and you learn to react more rational instead of emotional to situations, you will get to a point where you become almost too rational and I guess it raises the bar when it comes to experiencing great joy and great sadness or anger.
For Example:
Girls dumps you :
old emotional reaction: depressed and disappointed
new rational reaction: plenty more fish in the sea, it’s her loss
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
job interview rejection:
old emotional reaction: depressed and disappointed
new rational reaction: I’m smart, I can get another job in no time
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
favourite soccer team loses:
old emotional reaction: depressed and disappointed
new rational reaction: it’s ok, there’s another game next week or next month
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
but also:
You like a girl:
old emotional reaction: butterflies in your stomach in no time
new rational reaction: she’s nice, but there are other girls, she’s not perfect
in short: it doesn’t effect you anymore
Now I guess this is what you call wisdom. You’re now able to react to situations by analysing what’s going on by using your new found wisdom. I guess that’s part of being wise, I mean the stereotypical old wise man is hardly the most spectacular and impulsive person, but the downside is that it’s tough to completely let go and just let yourself be controlled by your emotions,.
They always say that love is the most intense when you’re sixteen or seventeen years old, I guess they say that because that’s when you lack wisdom and the ability to put things in perspective and you just react so intensely and emotional to things.
Now I wouldn’t want to go back to my days of pre-enlightenment, but it would be nice to not be so analytical all the time. Has anyone else experienced this, or does anyone have any solutions?