There are times when you come to learn more and more about yourself from the very mistakes you make - and still I wish this knowledge came to me more wisely.
I've realised for quite a while now what my best friend told me today - that I have not moved on as I would like to think of myself after this last year's events toot place; and, believe it or not, I always come to the same conclusion: that my problem does not lie with being unable to cope with the problems I face, but with my getting quite upset about being unable to do anything about them anyway.
In other words, it's not that I don't want to deal with them, it's that I find that there is little I can do about them and get all worked up over this fact. Cynicism would be a great philosophy for me to employ in my life, obviously: it would most likely help me avert this foolish way of thinking...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
My Greatest Weakness
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Well, at first glance, cynicism seems to be the perfect philosophy. Right?
Er...
Wrong.
Cynicism has a bad way of creeping into things you don't want it to, your future affairs for instance. Knowing you, i'm quite sure you don't want something of a Vulcan/Romulan aspect in your relation with your girlfriend - the one you will find if you follow your good friend's advice and move the heck on!
So, stay away from cynicism, or selectively employ it. Trust me, it will work ^_^
Hm... Actually, I didn't mean to suggest cynicism in the modern sense, but the original sense - which was criticised for being awfully similar to the most well known one, of course.
In that sense, cynicism makes the point that things can be split up in three categories: the good (which you are supposed to enjoy), the bad (which you are supposed to avoid or overcome), and the irrelevant (which is anything you cannot deal with).
And, believe me, I finally find it reasonable that all of you were so annoyed, scared, or some such over me, but I think these mental slaps have also finally settled my brain in its rightful place.
That's just about it, really. :P
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