September 07, 2010 10:20 pm Tuesday
"Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you." —Jim Rohn
I just came across the above quote while visiting a friend's FB homepage today and well, it just struck a chord. So, I put this up as my status ... and now am putting this in my blog as I want as many people as possible to read this and understand its import.
Though all of us today claim to be civilized and educated people living in a civilized world ... what strikes me as weird and ironical is that we often tend to do those things which we normally don't want/like others to do to us. Maybe we all need to re-learn the lessons that we had learnt during our childhood..."One should do unto others as s/he would like them to do unto her/him!" All too often the very same people who complain that they have been hurt, humiliated or embarrassed - mind you, these are their feelings and they might not always be true - end up doing the same things, at times going to a greater extent - to others.
I really wonder as to why these people have such selfish and blown-out-of-proportion egos ... why do they always think things have to be about them, even when they aren't? Anyways I seem to be digressing here...this wasn't about conceited individuals...
Rather this write-up was to remind people as well as myself that there are certain norms and acceptable ways of expressing one's emotions, responding to uncomfortable situations instead of just behaving in any particular way we want to! When we react to perceived insults/hurt..we really need to remember that what we perceive might not always be true and furthermore, even if it is true..we need to think twice before reacting ... because this thinking capability is what separates us from animals...and if we tend to always react reflexively like they do, then we have no right to be called humans! Just like we have emotions and feelings that do get hurt, it won't hurt to remember that so does the other person in front of us. And repeating bad behavior (if it was really bad in the first place) doesn't make one a greater human, rather it just goes to show that his/her ancestors were really apes....:-P
Anyways..bonne nuit everybody...gotta go now...enough of ramblings for tonite....:-)
