Feelings, we all have them, and hopefully most of us know what they are. Sadly, most of the time we can't understand them. Especially taboo ones like love and hate. Why do we love, and why do we hate? Well, I believe that love and hate happen to be factors of others feelings. When you think about it, what is something or who is someone that you hate? What did they do to you for you to hate them? Do they hate you back? Do they deserve this hatred? Well, even if they don't deserve it, something has caused it. Be it something that is around them, or something that they personally did. Often times, not liking how the person acts on an emotional, pessimistic or optimistic basis, is enough to make you not like the person. If you are a very optimistic person and can see great things in everything, a very pessimistic person may be someone that you naturally just stay away from.
Feelings in this scenario seem to act like gravity, or magnets. Though in most scenario's opposites attract, you will probably find yourself around people with the same feelings as you. People with the same feelings as you having stronger gravitational pull on you. My next point is how a person's feelings can actually affect your own, or how your own feelings can affect others. Don't lie, we all have feelings. Everybody knows it, the question isn't why, or how, but what? Every person has different feelings, and that is why we are affected by others feelings. If our positive emotion of love comes in contact of the heartbroken feeling of another, our love could make them feel worse, it could make them see hope, it could make you feel worse about your love, or maybe make it stronger because you can see what you are avoiding by having that feeling. Of course the way that emotion affects others emotions is not random, but how can we tell how we are going to affect others?
We as people would have a very tough time telling exactly how the feelings will affect us, or others. We can tell how we feel, that is quite simple. However we cannot tell how others feel. This leaves us with the dilemma of trying to find out who to talk to, and about what and when, how we will feel around them and how they will feel around us. This is something that psychological science is trying to master, the ability to tell what is affecting our feelings, and what to do to get our feelings to go a certain way. The thing is, is that every person is different, and knowing exactly what each person likes or dislikes can take some time. So in the end, we can't keep everyone happy. Simply, every person must rely on the few that can keep them happy and try to avoid those who don't.
The only thing that seems to help break the barrier of feeling is equivalent thought. I hate to say that thoughts are more powerful than feeling, but sincerely, you may hate a person so much, but if they believe in something unorthodox with you and support you and help you out with it, they may be total emotional opposites from you, but you will get along because of that one thought. So, how does thought affect emotion? Equivalent thought boosts, and in-equivalent thoughts negates. We may like to believe that opposites attract, sadly, having equal thoughts with another person is the only way to interact in a positive way.
Different people see different feelings as good, and different feelings as bad. Simply following what your heart tells you, will lead you to happiness. Your feelings will guide you to those that boost you, it will guide you to the things that boost you, and it will keep you happy.
I like blogging about my philosophical thoughts. Nobody quite understands why I blog it, but it makes me happy. What makes you happy?
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