You know… I was looking at the phone (funnily enough) whilst doing smth else. Saw the time. And thought: “Nathan’s article could come in…” I got back to what I was doing, and a moment later phone really notificates me of you delivering that article. 😃 I can predict the future! 😂
As for emotions… yes. We should pay attention to those. But to a certain degree. And as illogical as it sounds, we should examine them by… logic. As you said, they do deliver information, but, I think, a lot of times people run with the initial feelings caused by them. Act upon those initial feelings. Reacting before even really thinking. Actually we need to give ourselves a little time to let it sink and decide what happened and towards what we had a reaction. It’s not easy. And it sometimes takes a long time. And it’s messy and unpleasant. It’s easier to scroll through the phone and, perhaps, buy a new thing.
Taking the phone probably is the easiest thing to do in order to distract oneself. 30 years ago probably people were more into distracting themselves by smth else, it’s just hard to imagine it these days. In fact, when it’s too much of feeling and thinking my mother always suggests to do smth and distract myself from all the mess, if the chaos in the head regarding examinating emotions and events is too much. But, I guess, in my case that’s already the opposite of what you’ve written about. With that being said, I think, there’s the right time when to take that phone, book or wte in order to distract ourselves, so, this reality doesn’t kill us. And there’s the times when we should avoid that… in order to acknowledge that reality. If that makes sense…
You know… I was looking at the phone (funnily enough) whilst doing smth else. Saw the time. And thought: “Nathan’s article could come in…” I got back to what I was doing, and a moment later phone really notificates me of you delivering that article. 😃 I can predict the future! 😂
As for emotions… yes. We should pay attention to those. But to a certain degree. And as illogical as it sounds, we should examine them by… logic. As you said, they do deliver information, but, I think, a lot of times people run with the initial feelings caused by them. Act upon those initial feelings. Reacting before even really thinking. Actually we need to give ourselves a little time to let it sink and decide what happened and towards what we had a reaction. It’s not easy. And it sometimes takes a long time. And it’s messy and unpleasant. It’s easier to scroll through the phone and, perhaps, buy a new thing.
Taking the phone probably is the easiest thing to do in order to distract oneself. 30 years ago probably people were more into distracting themselves by smth else, it’s just hard to imagine it these days. In fact, when it’s too much of feeling and thinking my mother always suggests to do smth and distract myself from all the mess, if the chaos in the head regarding examinating emotions and events is too much. But, I guess, in my case that’s already the opposite of what you’ve written about. With that being said, I think, there’s the right time when to take that phone, book or wte in order to distract ourselves, so, this reality doesn’t kill us. And there’s the times when we should avoid that… in order to acknowledge that reality. If that makes sense…