Today's post in a long time begins with this question.
How far are you able to kill your emotions?
Emotional attachments have probably played a major part in most of peoples' lives. Say, for instance, a young child who loved his water bottle so much and brought it everywhere, kept it by his side all the time; only to lose it one fine day. Yeah, simplicity and childlike innocence displayed in this example.
Of course the boy would be terribly sad. And that feeling, can also be referred to as hurt. Resulting from a loss, damage or termination of an emotional attachment.
Why do some of us even get emotionally attached in the first place? For that sense of security? For that warm fuzzy feeling that envelopes us, the feeling of acceptance or being at ease? It seems innate in most of us in the beginning, especially when we are young, to get emotionally attached to many things, leaving ourselves vulnerable and prone to getting hurt.
Our favorite pencil case, our dear cuddly toys or perhaps even a flimsy and dirty bolster that we used to hug to sleep at night. We may get hurt when we lose these things that we once held dear, yet we may learn to become stronger from the hurt, or it could go another way, in which we develop a greater need for greater emotional attachments.
Gradually, later on in our lives, I believe all this hurt could lead to at least 3 possible outcomes.
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1) We Just Can't Seem To Let Go. The increased need for emotional attachment and affirmation causes us to cling. We hold on in the hope that these bonds are still there and lasting, even when they are already broken or non existent. We hold on even when it hurts or disappoints. Because we cherish and go all out for all that we hold dear. However, perhaps due to this condition, it may seem that there is simply too much that we cherish. It is impossible to love everything and everyone that we encounter, much less for them to reciprocate the same emotions back to us.
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2) We Know What's Important. The sentence speaks for itself. All the hurt that we have gone through in life may also have taught us this valuable lesson that, only those that are important deserve our emotional attachment. We know how to treat the right people right, and the wrong people right. We've learnt how to deal with all sorts of people. Say, be nice to friendly people and don't pay too much attention to assholes.
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3) Do We Know What's Important? All that hurt throughout our lives so far has taught us this. Enough with this. Time to cut off most ties, shut ourselves off from most people and stay in our shells. No more emotional attachments.
- It's time to kill our emotions.
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Of course, how we respond to our thoughts of emotional attachments may differ from person to person. A person who just doesn't know how to let go may not know how to maintain these emotional bonds well, and gradually loses most of the people that he cares for. Or should he know how to do so, but just can't seem to handle the overwhelming load of relationships that he has forged.
But that is not exactly of concern over here. How far are you able to kill your emotions?
If you are able to eradicate your emotions almost completely, does that imply that you are the superior one? For you would then become no longer vulnerable to hurt?
But should you have the lack of emotional support behind your back, how far would that actually bring you in life?
There is this, plague that is possibly spreading quickly through the world. This disregard for others.
Disregard for others' lives, religion, race, and emotions.
Lives taken for granted when people are killed over little or no reason.
Religions getting mocked at or used.
Racist remarks here and there.
Emotions regarded as squat.
Who gives a shit? It's all about the individual these days.
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Hello! Good job if you've read up till this point, wonder who still reads this space anyways. The above just came into mind. I've been thinking about a lot of things at work.
Yes, been working since last week. The first week was said to be a tough week. No kidding haha, there was much walking and talking to do, and me having flat soles wasn't helping. But I got through it. There were funny and awkward experiences every now and then, yet I am thankful for everything that has happened, there had always been something to learn from all this.
Life in future will be like this too. I've really learnt to cherish my times with people, most importantly family and friends. Got a better planned and organized way of life as well. So work is good in that sense.
I'm sorry that I couldn't have been better though. For most things. These I still have to work on. To Be A Better Man.
We'll see in time, I'll keep trying :)
On a last but not least note as always, take care my friend.. All I can do is just, hope for the best and do what I can, whatever that is within my means.
