I think the answer may lie in your inability to distinguish the true emotions from the false emotions. (I’m not accusing you of anything, merely speculating.)
Of course, both are real responses, but the fundamentals of each are very different.
For example: a basic emotion such as fear can exist, without prejudice. The emotion exists, and it does not care whether its reasons are valid or not.
Take a misunderstanding or miscommunication, and you can easily have the emotional response of fear. We often fear that which we don’t understand.
Would the response be ‘false’, given that you don’t fully understand the situation and there may actually be nothing to fear?
True or false?
If you were standing on the edge of a cliff without a safety harness, fear would be a natural response. Is this response more accurate or ‘true’?
Understanding
Is there a way to fully understand every situation, and every reaction a human being can make?
On what terms would you be able to understand? Scientific? Spiritual?
If you could understand every situation and subsequent reaction, would you cease to emote or would it be a truer form of emotion?
Would it be an enlightened state of being? Does it really matter?
Could it be that we are worried of what damage our image might take if we stray from the tidy box we’ve presented ourselves to be?
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This is interesting. Hmmm, is it possible in your view, for someone, to see the question of viewing the fear-response as an observation of something that we understand to be fear? We can then wonder whether or not our observation is accurate or not, to find out whether or not what we really feel is fear.
That may make it easier to figure out what the response can be categorized under. What do you think? Or am I going in a completely opposite direction to what you intended this topic to go to?
wow that is so TRUE…., I read the part :
“Take a misunderstanding or miscommunication, and you can easily have the emotional response of fear. We often fear that which we don’t understand.”
It is so true and it happens everyday in our life. We always fear that which we don’t understand. At least i do
… because titles like “Why You Rarely Speak the Truth” provoke people more than “Why You Sometimes Lie”.
Bes Zain: You’ve taken this into an over-my-head direction
Care to elaborate/dumb-down what you are thinking? (apologies to anyone intelligent reading…)
Raf: I’m often stumped by fear of the unknown. I guess that’s why I seek to understand everything…less fear that way!
inspirationbit: Why thank you
I fear nothing but Sasquatch.
Wonderful food for thought.
True vs False emotions. Hmm, how does one choose to perceive themselves, their being and how one fits in whatever box one chooses to paint for him/herself? Is my reality any more “real” or “right” than the next man’s?
My philosophy is that it is what it is. What it “is” is ultimately up to you. Life is filled with story telling. 10 people can experience the same unfolding of events, yet each may have a very different and unique take on the experience. Is one more real or more right than the other? As I see it, it is what it is for each person involved.
“Is there a way to fully understand every situation, and every reaction a human being can make?” — understanding as I know it is an evolving perception. What I can absorb and/or justify today may be very different than my take on it tomorrow. I am dynamic. I am infinite. I am an evolving bundle of energy that represents Life. I am a work in progress being the best me in the Now but a spirit that seeks to evolve with wisdom, knowledge, experience. The universe, my essence and growth can be infinite.
Life is good.
One,
-Saïd
I think that we rarely speak the truth because we manipulate past events in our minds so we become the good guy in every situation. Like the great book ‘1984′, we will look back on history and change the events to fit our current outlook.
Did you struggle to survive in the past because you were too lazy to get a job and are now somehow a huge success? Re-write that period as your time spent finding your true passion in life and continuing to look for opportunities - never committing to one thing because you knew success was right around the corner.
very interesting.
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