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Emotions are like weather. You can stick to your regimen forever, and you're still going to feel down sometimes, even if for absolutely no reason at all. That's
by ahoyhere 16y ago
Emotions are like weather. You can stick to your regimen forever, and you're still going to feel down sometimes, even if for absolutely no reason at all. That's totally normal cycles of chemistry.
And yes, life is suffering. You stub your toe. You think it's too cold, or too hot. Somebody doesn't look at you the way you want. Your tummy hurts. You constantly have to 'battle' against focusing "on what you're not," for example. You have a hard time focusing. You look at books, things, places, scenes, and people (hey, and HN comments) and they feel WRONG. You don't like them. You judge them. You judge everything by your yardstick.
That is all suffering.
That's the human condition: judging, and struggling, and hurting.
It doesn't say there aren't OTHER things, but the suffering is always there.
- RevRal 16y agoThat, and the sheer sum of suffering vastly trumps pleasure in the world. And not just in humans -- there is a lot of cruelty in nature. Pain can also be condensed much more easily than pleasure, to maddening heights. It seems very whimsical to say that suffering is not one of the main defining features of the current situation on planet earth. And to say so is to blatantly ignore not only your own suffering, but the world's. Think about how tiny hope was compared to everything else that was let out of Pandora's box.
- tom_ilsinszki 16y ago>>> You constantly have to 'battle' against focusing "on what you're not," Well, I don't have to. If I focus on the problem I'm facing probably I will be happy with the outcome. One thing is for sure: My "focusing on the problem" self can beat my "focusing on what I wish I'd be" self any day.
- taphangum 16y agoProgramming helps here. I got a lot better at doing this in everyday things when i got a lot better at programming.