Thursday, December 04, 2003
This post is an answer to the 2nd comment from my last post, which you can find here.
Thanks for your comment Priscilla... very nice of you really.
As far as why we make so much of numbers, I think it's just for convenience and I think that makes sense. There's always so much of everything to think about and everyday is about getting lost in the details. However insignificant, small decisions demand immediate attention and can monopolize our thoughts. Birthdays, anniversaries, important dates, the changing of seasons, esp when any of these things work out to nice round numbers, give us the opportunity to look at the larger picture and sum it all up. It's important. In the same way that the unconscious mind uses sleep to sort through the days experiences. The fact that it happens on one day as opposed to another is irrelevant I think, a birthday as opposed to some random date, but people aren't confortable with randomness (because it takes a lot of mental effort to keep track of random things) so people put it someplace memorable, like a significant date and are reminded about it when the date comes around.
About this...
"...2004 will be the year you will get a new and wonderful job, think positive, the principle of life is that life responds by corresponding, your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
I would never discourage anyone from thinking positively. It usually helps. In my experience it doesn't have any real affect on your life but it does change your perception of of it, and usually for the better. I say usually because it can be very thinking positively can be pacifying, which can ultimately be very negative . Also, I am very weary of being made a fool of and believing that you can influence any situation by willing it to be one way or another is the best way to make yourself a perfect victim. It's easy to be taken advantage of when you think that you have some control over a situation that you don't understand.
Also, this way of thinking quickly breaks down. If everyone could influence the circumstances in their lives by thinking positively about them then there would simply be too many competing influences and they would simply cancel each other out, the net effect would be nothing. There are people who want nothing more in life than to see other people suffer. There is no institution devoted to fairness or justice in the universe to work through all of these arguments. So then it would come down to some set of absolute rules. And good things don't absolutely happen to good people. This fact is easy to prove. So then we can't say that there are absolute rules, or if there are then they don't necessarily benefit people who are good and kind so I would prefer that there not be any rules at all.
I've found that life a a choice between giving up your positive outlook or surrendering your expectations that the world should be a much better place than it is. Religion fits in here somewhere but religion is foolish happiness taken to extremes of complacency so there is a big gap in my view of this where I refuse to plug in religion.
By the way, I don't mind being 30.
Oh Jenn... yeah she's alright ;O)
Thanks again for the comment. I know you were trying to be positive and supportive. I 'get it' that I wasn't supposed to analyze it.
Thanks :O)
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