What I find is that the ideas of people and everything they're telling is oftentimes quite strongly undermining self-confidence, honestly I'm not even getting into all this... Most of the times I listen to everything people say through a filter that sees everything in a soft and cloudy way, because it all sounds pretty and relieving, but it's not. The main idea I compare this way of thinking to, is an idea that I'll never let go, never, and it's not that complicated. I always see myself, and my identity as emotions and feelings first, and, to be clear, I mean that's reality, I see that as a reality, and thoughts are always lingering and linked to these emotions and feelings. The emotions and feelings come first, and thoughts come next, and as a matter of fact they do have the ability to steer these emotions and feelings, but it's very hard, kind of like when there's a big stream in a forest, you can dig holes and make the stream of water and feelings flow a little more to the left or a little more to the right, but that's it, and that's okay, and water is certainly not going to flow uphill, because that's physically not possible, that's how it's supposed to be. So thoughts are like the prettiest things of the forest, like the fruits and the flowers, and whatnot, but their essence is not to control the sense of the stream of emotions, their essence is to drink the water and be pure and bear fruit. That's how I see my identity, philosophically speaking.
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