The way you look at things
By AidaLily
@AidaLily (1450)
United States
July 22, 2012 2:47pm CST
Now this is about people and decision making.
I have been thinking for a while about a lot of the things and one of the things I realized is that some humans need to cling on emotional hopes, dreams, and thoughts.
Another mylotter had "said" to me: "My emotions drive me to find the truth. Your detachment enables you to ignore it."
This simple sentence made me think more on a subject I haven't thought about in a while and I realized I can not agree with such a statement.
The reason being is because emotionally driven think does in fact lead to emotionally driven, pre-decided "truth". In simpler terms, if you are emotionally driven to one side of a topic, then you will not be able to see the other side. You emotions are telling you that "A" is correct regardless of whether or not "B" is correct in anyway shape or form. You can only see "A".
However, emotionally detaching one's self from a topic, I believe opens up the doors to both sides and allows you to form an opinion based on two sides of what could be the truth.
In dealing with emotionally involved people though, the person who is detached will be assigned an emotion or feeling by the overly emotional person regardless of the detached person's views on it. After all, the emotionally involved person can only see "A" and not "B", "C", "D", etc.
Personally, I don't ignore anything, but I have trouble actually feeling anything as well.
1. What are your thoughts on the statement? (the one in italics)
2. Do you believe it is possible to "fake" emotions when needed for every day life?
3. Is it easy to tell when someone is faking them? Or are all emotions completely by the books?
2 responses
@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
23 Jul 12
Hi AidaLily, Congratulations on starting such a good discussion. The statement "my emotions drive me to find the truth. Your detachment enables you to ignore it" really says it all about the difference in how we look at things. You may not agree with the statement but it does I think, hold some truth. Some people feel that they must find what they believe to be the truth, what they forget of course is that there are many sides to truth. It is also practically impossible to ignore someone who simply refuses to look at more than one side. Personally, I think it's near impossible to 'fake' emotions. Blessings.
@AidaLily (1450)
• United States
23 Jul 12
It is rather hard to ignore someone who simply refuses to look at more than one side.
I have always looked at multiple sides to come up with my own conclusions. I just feel that if I looked at it emotionally, I'd probably miss all the other sides that are being offered. In my opinion that narrows the field of vision down a narrow hallway rather than expanding it to see that there are many sides to the truth.
It may be near impossible to "fake" emotions. However, it could just be good acting to fake them. I mean movie stars have to fake them for their roles. I guess it is all in perspective.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
22 Jul 12
I think it is fact that emotions color your point of view. But truth is also colored by a point of view. Learning to step away and view life from a distance
often allows us to see the whole picture. The statement that "emotions drive me to find the truth", only means that they drive towards one truth. A fact it that if you fall into the pol you will get wet, and emotional truth is that you will drown, another is that you will enjoy a swim, EACH OF THESE MAY BE TRUE OR MAY NOT.
