2011-01-08, 05:12 AM
We humans are, for some reason, instinctively aware of unfavorable events that happen to us. Be it physical or emotional, we seem to be more fixated on pains than we are on something, or anything, good.
So I ask you, Southperry, when something bad happens, what do you see it as?
A mere obstacle to be overcome in your quest for maturity?
A fair trade-off for the good things that did/will happen to you?
Or do you think things could have been worse, or much worse, and embrace the fact that you are "still doing pretty damned well"?
Or you just don't know at all and live through your days sluggishly until time has done its wonders on you, until history repeats itself?
How do you bring yourselves through difficulties that matter to you, personally?
I'm wondering, Southperry, what a bad thing actually is. "It could've been worse" never really makes sense to me, for just as likely as the "worse" option is to be true, the "better" option is also viable. What it could have been holds no real value, as no matter how much you want to believe (or actually believe), it just isn't the case.
Then, what is a bad event? If it's not relatively/subjectively compared with other events, is there a standardized scale of "event's quality"? Or is it simply just another of the bazillion occurrences that take place every complete turn the earth makes, and thus, holds no real significance?
Note: I know this might fit better in the blog system, but I want it to be more publicly open than self-centered. Then again, I could be the only one insane enough to be thinking these things, I don't know.
So I ask you, Southperry, when something bad happens, what do you see it as?
A mere obstacle to be overcome in your quest for maturity?
A fair trade-off for the good things that did/will happen to you?
Or do you think things could have been worse, or much worse, and embrace the fact that you are "still doing pretty damned well"?
Or you just don't know at all and live through your days sluggishly until time has done its wonders on you, until history repeats itself?
How do you bring yourselves through difficulties that matter to you, personally?
I'm wondering, Southperry, what a bad thing actually is. "It could've been worse" never really makes sense to me, for just as likely as the "worse" option is to be true, the "better" option is also viable. What it could have been holds no real value, as no matter how much you want to believe (or actually believe), it just isn't the case.
Then, what is a bad event? If it's not relatively/subjectively compared with other events, is there a standardized scale of "event's quality"? Or is it simply just another of the bazillion occurrences that take place every complete turn the earth makes, and thus, holds no real significance?
Note: I know this might fit better in the blog system, but I want it to be more publicly open than self-centered. Then again, I could be the only one insane enough to be thinking these things, I don't know.