Relativity, simple.
The rain was pouring. The weather was extremely hot and muggy. I felt like shit and I really didn't want to walk 1/4 mile to my car in the rain. Fuck it, what are you going to do? I started walking. I thought, "OF COURSE it has to be pouring the hardest when I have to leave..." , as I walked out the door. Just my luck I guess. The rain was cold and I could barely see from all the water. Great.
After walking 100 ft or so and thinking about how much it sucked that it was raining, I realized something. The rain actually felt GOOD. It was actually much better than the blazing hot temperatures and mugginess that was present before. Physically, this felt better than NOT being rained on. Why was I so preoccupied with this idea that it SUCKED? After thinking about this for awhile, I could name many more reasons why I was more lucky than unlucky in this situation. I was getting off work :), I was wearing shit work clothes, I was hot and sweaty before, and the raining made me feel purified in a way. The only downside was that my car seat got kinda wet, but if you've seen my car, you know that's not a big deal.
Would I have caught myself thinking negatively and changed it if I wasn't so preoccupied with changing myself? Would I have kept thinking negatively and been pissed off for the whole time? Who knows. I'm glad that I DO strive to look at the bright side, and I hope that this will come more naturally as time moves on. It ALMOST seems like I'm training myself to be more content/happy. I wonder if anyone else does this? It seems like a worthwhile endeavor considering the other option of spending copious amounts of money to create happiness, which I'm PRETTY sure won't lead to much of anything other than the short term goal.
Basically what I'm trying to say, is that I believe that the mind is trainable by the "operator" and I wonder if many people realize/believe this? Then again, then we get into this whole ordeal of if "I" really am the operator.
After walking 100 ft or so and thinking about how much it sucked that it was raining, I realized something. The rain actually felt GOOD. It was actually much better than the blazing hot temperatures and mugginess that was present before. Physically, this felt better than NOT being rained on. Why was I so preoccupied with this idea that it SUCKED? After thinking about this for awhile, I could name many more reasons why I was more lucky than unlucky in this situation. I was getting off work :), I was wearing shit work clothes, I was hot and sweaty before, and the raining made me feel purified in a way. The only downside was that my car seat got kinda wet, but if you've seen my car, you know that's not a big deal.
Would I have caught myself thinking negatively and changed it if I wasn't so preoccupied with changing myself? Would I have kept thinking negatively and been pissed off for the whole time? Who knows. I'm glad that I DO strive to look at the bright side, and I hope that this will come more naturally as time moves on. It ALMOST seems like I'm training myself to be more content/happy. I wonder if anyone else does this? It seems like a worthwhile endeavor considering the other option of spending copious amounts of money to create happiness, which I'm PRETTY sure won't lead to much of anything other than the short term goal.
Basically what I'm trying to say, is that I believe that the mind is trainable by the "operator" and I wonder if many people realize/believe this? Then again, then we get into this whole ordeal of if "I" really am the operator.
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1 Comments:
Great analogy.
But what IS the operator then? Personally I side with the more "metaphysical" idea that the operator is the soul, or something to that extent. It's funny that I think that because this "soul" that I speak of, I'm very skeptical that it even exists in the first place...
PS: Great post on RIFD, very thought provoking.
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