Enjoyment. It seems hard for me to truly enjoy something once it becomes the norm. All the previous exciting emotions it once conjured, disappear; the suspense, and the thrill are lost.
Gratitude. I feel it is my personal misconception that once you are thankful for something, its ok to disregard it. As if once, you've recognized your appreciation, it becomes invaluable; things are taken for granted. Take marriage. So many people fall head over heels into a whirl pool of emotional chaos, they have can barely grasp for a breath of reality...and they get married. But once time goes by, and your significant other takes on ordinary conotations, they become unneeded. The spark is ruthlessly extinguished as the excitment and intial thrill die down. There seems that without emotional attachment, things become meaningless and once we no longer feel strongly about something, it no longer proves valuable.
Emotion. As things become routine, and enjoyment and gratitude disappear, emotion follows. We become robotic. While still center stage of our lives, our manuscript becomes tiresome as the dialogue proves monotonous. We loose emotional connection and begin to live life in a logical state. Although analysis gives us glasses to focus our perception, feelings give us shovels to dig below the surface and interact. Living life exclusively by logic results in nothing more than a passive existance. Some can say emotions put people in the clouds, and I can agree--without some amount of logistic comprehension, we are lost. HOWEVER, approaching life like a study course, may secure your feet to the ground, but blast your soul out of the universe
Its like learning to speak a new language-- Teaching it like a research topic and taking tests and completing worksheets can result in great understanding. However, the student who is immersed in the language and partakes in the culture will be able to speak it. He/she may use improper grammar or lack the knowledge of its origin, but the student will be proactive.
As with life. We can learn every lesson, study every artifact, understand every step to success. Yet without emotions, we cannot connect our life to our learned lessons. Knowledge derives from external resources...Our feelings come from us. Anyone can inhale the same information, but it is our emotions that expel different responses.
Be grateful for what you have, and content in the smallest factors that precede in our life. We cannot lose sight of the reality in which we live. It is only once we connect emotionally to the factors the world gives us, that we can we truly begin to live.
Stop asking questions like "What is the right thing to say?" and instead contemplate "What am I feeling as a result, what is my personal perspective?"
Question feeling, not just action.
Love Love,
Curious Chloe
