Today was a pretty good day. I just had 3 hours of classes, and was otherwise free, and generally spent the day hanging out with my friends. I still however for some reason have a feeling that something is not complete. No its not about my electronics homework. I think it has something to do more with how I am biding my time, so putting on my proverbial philosophical hat here goes,
What is the most important thing for anyone? To be happy. Not in the way of having the last piece of cake, but like a deeper feeling of contentment. The ever so elusive, moment of "zen". So naturally it should follow that we spend our entire time striving to stay in that heavenly zone. Why is it that such moments are so fleeting for the majority? Why do we have that nagging feeling of "bleh" (excuse the lingo). A sense of irritation mixed with two part discontentment. It might be because we often allow small things to dictate our moods to quite an unhealthy extent. We tend to focus so much on the small details that we tend to miss the bigger picture. A consistent sense of anxiety and tension fuelled by a society that praises the achievers who are there ironically because they enjoy what they do. They know the essentials and what to work on, while most of us start losing our cool over small barely noticeable issues (in the larger scheme of things).
So what is the solution? Just giving a retarded smile when your boss/professor/satan is demanding an explanation for your mistakes? No, the solution would be to actually try to find out "where did I go wrong?". To realise that the guy doesn't have any personal bone to pick with you. Try to interpret it as he expected a much better standard from you and was so dissapointed that he hid it by going to classic psycho defense mechanisms (Works for me :P). As for the personal feeling of loss and dissapointment, that is what would sting the most, but the thing to remember here is, " The battle is not over till the last man fights." So keep swinging with optimism because giving up does surprisingly nothing to help you get a solution.
So perhaps the solution to leaving this state of angst is to always tackle any problem with a positive attitude and to know that nothing is the end of the world!
Cheers to that mates! :)
What is the most important thing for anyone? To be happy. Not in the way of having the last piece of cake, but like a deeper feeling of contentment. The ever so elusive, moment of "zen". So naturally it should follow that we spend our entire time striving to stay in that heavenly zone. Why is it that such moments are so fleeting for the majority? Why do we have that nagging feeling of "bleh" (excuse the lingo). A sense of irritation mixed with two part discontentment. It might be because we often allow small things to dictate our moods to quite an unhealthy extent. We tend to focus so much on the small details that we tend to miss the bigger picture. A consistent sense of anxiety and tension fuelled by a society that praises the achievers who are there ironically because they enjoy what they do. They know the essentials and what to work on, while most of us start losing our cool over small barely noticeable issues (in the larger scheme of things).
So what is the solution? Just giving a retarded smile when your boss/professor/satan is demanding an explanation for your mistakes? No, the solution would be to actually try to find out "where did I go wrong?". To realise that the guy doesn't have any personal bone to pick with you. Try to interpret it as he expected a much better standard from you and was so dissapointed that he hid it by going to classic psycho defense mechanisms (Works for me :P). As for the personal feeling of loss and dissapointment, that is what would sting the most, but the thing to remember here is, " The battle is not over till the last man fights." So keep swinging with optimism because giving up does surprisingly nothing to help you get a solution.
So perhaps the solution to leaving this state of angst is to always tackle any problem with a positive attitude and to know that nothing is the end of the world!
Cheers to that mates! :)
