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Was reading this on the Guardian website, wondered what you thought.
Behind all of the most popular modern approaches to happiness and success is the simple philosophy of focusing on things going right. But ever since the first philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, a dissenting perspective has proposed the opposite: that it’s our relentless effort to feel happy, or to achieve certain goals, that is precisely what makes us miserable and sabotages our plans. And that it is our constant quest to eliminate or to ignore the negative – insecurity, uncertainty, failure, sadness – that causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain or unhappy in the first place.
Facing up to bad things is hard, but if done and a happy outcome achieved it shows you can take control of your life. Just putting your head in the sand and pretending nothing is wrong just allows all the difficult things to stack up. When eventually you can’t ignore them anymore then that is when people reach melt down point and their worlds are in danger of falling apart.
So, I agree we shouldn’t ignore the negatives, it is better to take baby steps and take a problem and solve it before moving onto the next one.
I always thought I was a glass half full person, but I think I am just like everyone else….. not a glass at all.
I like to think Im a realist…. sometimes the glass is half full other times the opposite… however if its Champagne I’ll have a full glass please :D
i dont ignore the negatives…………if something’s wrong i try to make it right……..i have been known to go to ridiculous lengths to sort something out even it’ll cost me financially and i know people have stood there and thought ‘what the fook is she doing?’…..when it’s right i can move on
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I like to think Im a realist…. sometimes the glass is half full other times the opposite… however if its Champagne I’ll have a full glass please :D
I’ll nick the rest of the bottle with a straw!!
However, on a serious note, I am a realist, but, I put a smile on my face whatever the problem is, and it makes me and others feel better!
Does that make us stubborn tinks? I suspect I am. That can be a good quality but also can be difficult to let go.
Actually I have difficulty analysing behaviour even in myself… I think you must be a lucky person if you know how you will react to situations… I surprise myself sometimes… when it comes right down to it… maybe its best not to over analyse. Go with the flow and do what “feels” right at the time.
I go with the flow generally, however, I do think and analyse certain situations very deeply and take the course of action I have decided on! So I suppose I am a half full person! :D
In denying causes of doubt, do we inherently create a false faith?
Much like an intrinsic sense of darkness can only serve the significance of light, is a degree of negativity an essential component of development and enlightenment?
Does a single candle struck in the overwhelming sense of midnight gloom exemplify light much more than one hundred held high to an overpowering midday sun?
Or, much like my somewhat flawed and cliched symbolism, is such a sense of illuminative perspective placebo like? A safety stencil and a mere coping mechanism? A form of comfort template designed in some way to rationalise or place proportion on the utter chaos of everywhere and everything?In short.. I dunno.
But I can’t begin to imagine an alternative.
Fear being the arbitrator.@Sgt Pepper wrote:
In denying causes of doubt, do we inherently create a false faith?
Much like an intrinsic sense of darkness can only serve the significance of light, is a degree of negativity an essential component of development and enlightenment?
Does a single candle struck in the overwhelming sense of midnight gloom exemplify light much more than one hundred held high to an overpowering midday sun?
Or, much like my somewhat flawed and cliched symbolism, is such a sense of illuminative perspective placebo like? A safety stencil and a mere coping mechanism? A form of comfort template designed in some way to rationalise or place proportion on the utter chaos of everywhere and everything?In short.. I dunno.
But I can’t begin to imagine an alternative.
Fear being the arbitrator.Dunno either, but, I guess, if you don’t have a ‘safety stencil’, you have lost the plot?! :?
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