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It's easier to say "the world has no greener side". Is sad for National Geographic crew's effort to have taken so much beautiful scenes. It's sad for your parents effort to provide you safe and comfortable life. I am sorry to hear that.
As Sigmund Freud, godfather of psychoanalysis, have many writings that consistently reflects human beings. Human has an inate ability called "defense mechanism". Probably the one who sees or choose to see there is nothing greener on the other side is easier for them to live life. So they won't be hurt and dissapointed. They would consistently be on defensive stance. So they are prepared to be not hurt and dissapointed, therefore, "Anything beautiful is rejected because is not real, anything bad is generalized as real". I am sorry for those who had to enjoy so little about life.
Another interesting theory from W. Glasser that has widely discussed by scholars that may be applicable for those who are interested to read further on this article of mine. It Choice Theory that I will be discussing. It seems many people have low awareness that we have tremendous capacity of 'choices'. Most helpless situations are due to "choiceless". More appropriately "limited choice". We are unable to act or react because the limited options in choices. In life, it is how we choose to live, to listen, to perceive, to think, and even to be told what to do. We can choose to let people tell us what to do, so is not about "we have no choice because we are told to do it". Even death can be a choice for suicical cases, which is not such a popular choice... I shall not be long winded, I hope above is elucidated enough for a brief understanding. So come back to the Ugly and Beautiful world, some people CHOOSE to see and acknowledge only the Ugliness, some people CHOOSE to see and acknowledge only the Beautiful, and some CHOOSE to see and acknowledge the both- Ugly and Beautiful. So the fact is choices are always there, is up for you to discover more.
I have received many interesting comments from certain people about the recent post I had on Ugly and Beautiful. Maybe something for you to wonder and I must say, people are impatient to think more. Most people are full of actions, thus, life can be like a big casino to them; full of gambling like rolling a dice to see what life will turn out to be. Just do it first and when shit happens then only think and plan. I wonder why not think before you act. Think before you judge. This before you choose or think of what choices you have. The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it's opened.
I hope everyone have a beautiful sight in their eyes and heart, even though there is the existence of ugliness.
Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? Why are we here?
Why do we do it? Why should I believe? What makes you believe?
How does it happen? What the fuck is going on? How do I get there/here?
Is there a purpose in life? Is there only one God? Is there God? Is religion man made? Should religion be institutionalized?
Is this world real? Am I real? Are you real?
Do I exist? Do you exist? What is existence?
Can I trust you? Can I trust myself? Can I trust myself to trust you?
Did you lie? Why did you lie? Do you know you are lying?
What is war? Do we need war? Should war happen? Does war bring peace? Does peace needs war?
Why do you care? Why didn't you care?
What is love? Will love prevail? Is there love?
What is death? Where do we go when we die? Do we actually "die"?
What is life? Did life exist for us? Or did we exist for life?
What is matter? What consist of matter? Is matter part of our illusion?
Why do we ask why? Why "question" exist? Why do we bother ask questions?
Must we know? Do we want to know? Should I know? Shouldn't you know?
Oh man, the list is too long.... please continue it yourself....
I frown upon one who sees only one side of the world. I am sad to be aware of those who is os dissapointed at the world... Allow yourself to have a chance to see that there is a greener side of the world, although pessimist may see a lot of grey, and even bloody side of the world; Please do not let the series of the unfortunate events sway you from the actual world. Yes, the world can be ugly but be fair to let the world charm you with Her beautiful side of the world. Why choose only to see the disgusting side of her? How about the lovely side of Her. When one chooses to only acknowledge Her ugliness, one succumbs to despise Her and react to hate and anger... The Way or the Tao. It has the Ying and Yang.
Albert Einstein
Below are my common views and perspective with Eisntein about life and science:-
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
Look into my face; my name is Might-Have-Been, I am also called Too-Late, No-More and Farewell
Clouds and Mountains
Before I study the Tao, the clouds and the mountains were just clouds and mountains to me. When I study the Tao, the clouds and the mountains were more than just the clouds and the mountains. After I studied the Tao, now the clouds and the mountains are just mountains and clouds.
Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who has experienced the Nazi detention camp during the World War II. Through his journey and suffering in the detention camp, Frankl has managed to not only survive, he discovered many other things in life and psychology. Through his account of of stories and Logotherapy, I have found...
Viktor E. Frankl. (1959). Man’s Search for Meaning.
“… the typical self-centeredness of the neurotic is broken up instead of being continually fostered and reinforced.”
(p.96)
“According to Jean-Paul Sartre, man invents himself, he designs his own “essence”, that is to say, what he essentially is including what he should be, or ought to become. However, I think the meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.”
(p.99)
“Man, however, is to live and even to die for the sake of his ideals and values!”
(p.97)
“There is much wisdom in the words of the Nietzsche: He who has a why to live for can bear almost anyhow.” (p.104)
Man’s Search for Himself, Rollo May, 1953.
“They generally can talk fluently about what they should want—to complete their college degrees successfully, to get a job, to tall in love and marry and raise a family—but it is soon evident, even to them, that they are describing what other, parents, professors, employers, expect them to rather than what they themselves want. Two decades ago such external goals could be taken seriously; but now the person realizes, even as he talks, that actually his parents and society do not make all these requirements of him… As one person put it, “I’m just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me.”” (p.15)
“Consciousness of self gives is the power to stand outside the rigid claim of stimulus and response, to pause, and by this pause to throw some weight on either side, to cast some decision about the response will be.” (p.161)
The Discovery of being
“The full meaning of the term human being will be clearer if the reader will keep in mind that being is a particle, a verb from implying that someone is in the process of being something. It is unfortunate that, when used as a general noun in English, the term being connotes a static substance, and when used as a particular noun such as a being, it is usually assumed to refer to an entity, say such as a soldier to be counted as a general noun, to mean potentia, the source of potentiality; being is the potentiality by which the acorn becomes the oak or each of us becomes what he truly is… We can understand another human being only as we see what he is moving toward, what he is becoming; and we can know ourselves only as we “project our potentia in action.” The significant tense for human beings is thus the future—that is to say, the critical question is what I am pointing toward, what I will be in immediate future.” (p.97)
“The acceptance by another person, such as the therapist, shows the patient that he no longer needs to fight his main battle on the front of whether anyone else, or the world, can accept him; the acceptance frees him to experience his own being… The crucial question is what the individual himself, in his own awareness of and responsibility for his existence, does with the fact that he can be accepted.” (p.101-102)
