Greed
It's raining outside, probably my favorite weather.
But the thing I want and need to reflect on is a thing we brought up during psychology class today. There have been proven that the human mind works like this, we can not be satisfied with what we have. If you're completely satisfied with your salary and then hears from another person that he or she makes more than you do, then you won't be satisfied anymore. And if you think about it, it's quite true. We always work to achieve something. And once we've achieved it we plan out new things to work for.
For me, this actually sounds quite pathetic. I know that I work this way aswell, I'm definetly not implying that I'm better than anyone else but that almost everyone thinks this way. I want to bring up the shaolin monks here. They are buddists. And the whole buddist philosophy is that greed is a sort of torture. They are taught to not feel greed or to be in need of all these material things. And I can relate to them to some extent actually. Is the whole meaning for us to always work hard and never to relax and to be happy with the things we actually do have?
Think about it, have we ever been happy that we actually get to educate us, that we get free food everyday in school etc? I know my polish cousins they have to pay for their school material school lunch etc. And I've seen those prices. they are not nice! So maybe we should change our way of thinking. I don't say that we should be grateful for every little detailed, because we need to work for something but perhaps we should appreciate things MORE than we do now.
But the thing I want and need to reflect on is a thing we brought up during psychology class today. There have been proven that the human mind works like this, we can not be satisfied with what we have. If you're completely satisfied with your salary and then hears from another person that he or she makes more than you do, then you won't be satisfied anymore. And if you think about it, it's quite true. We always work to achieve something. And once we've achieved it we plan out new things to work for.
For me, this actually sounds quite pathetic. I know that I work this way aswell, I'm definetly not implying that I'm better than anyone else but that almost everyone thinks this way. I want to bring up the shaolin monks here. They are buddists. And the whole buddist philosophy is that greed is a sort of torture. They are taught to not feel greed or to be in need of all these material things. And I can relate to them to some extent actually. Is the whole meaning for us to always work hard and never to relax and to be happy with the things we actually do have?
Think about it, have we ever been happy that we actually get to educate us, that we get free food everyday in school etc? I know my polish cousins they have to pay for their school material school lunch etc. And I've seen those prices. they are not nice! So maybe we should change our way of thinking. I don't say that we should be grateful for every little detailed, because we need to work for something but perhaps we should appreciate things MORE than we do now.
Relaxing
This song represents my day!
Sunday, perhaps not the best day of the week but still better than monday! So, what have I done this lovely sunday? I haven't actually done anything of important manner. I have just been doing things that I like and that relaxes me such as playing computer games, listening to mucis very very loud and lying in bed speaking with my love.
I have been so busy this whole week, I have been taking retakes of the mocks, doing swedish essay, writing on my extended essay and some smaller homeworks aswell. So as you can see I've been quite occupied.Yesterday I was actually cleaning the whole day so this is probably the fisrt day I have allowed myself to relax completely. As weird as it might sound I am satisfied with having it this way, working really hard the whole week and then do nothing for a whole day.
28/8
Feelings
Why is it so difficult to share your feelings with someone? Am I the only one finding this a hard task to do?
We all have periods when we might not be that happy. Perhaps it feels as if nothing is changing as if your stuck in one place, or maybe you've been let down by someone. And when those times comes it can perhaps feel good to have someone to talk to and to just let everything out. But sometimes this can be a hard thing for me to do. I feel as if i waste that person's time or they arent that interested.
But i've come to realize one thing, they do care! Atlest my friends have proven that many times. But still, there's that little part in me saying "why are you telling them this, they don't want to hear you study for 6 hours yesterday".
I guess the thing Iwant to tell the ones that read my blog is that don't feel afraid to open yourself up and talk to people about various things. Because we all need to ventilate sometimes. And if you don't feel like you have anyone to talk to, you can mail me if you want :)
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small things
I'll continue on the same path as before, happiness :)
I came to realize today that im actually quite happy if I choose to focus on the right things. For example, school has begun. yay some people might say with irony. But for me it's quite OK to get back to school. Because this is hopefully my last year and then graduation! :D and that is a good thing, right?
Another positive reason is that now I can go to a cozy café with my friends and maybe enjoy the fact that we all did well on that difficult exam whilst it's raining outside.
Or another feeling that I love is the feeling you get when you're handing in that essay you worked SO hard with to your teacher. I assume most of you have sometime had that feeling.
I came across a site today which states those small things that make you happy or to just stop and smile to yourself. I selected some of these things:
I came to realize today that im actually quite happy if I choose to focus on the right things. For example, school has begun. yay some people might say with irony. But for me it's quite OK to get back to school. Because this is hopefully my last year and then graduation! :D and that is a good thing, right?
Another positive reason is that now I can go to a cozy café with my friends and maybe enjoy the fact that we all did well on that difficult exam whilst it's raining outside.
Or another feeling that I love is the feeling you get when you're handing in that essay you worked SO hard with to your teacher. I assume most of you have sometime had that feeling.
I came across a site today which states those small things that make you happy or to just stop and smile to yourself. I selected some of these things:
10/8
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
~Robert Brault
Happiness
Do you know what brings you joy?
Do you know what makes you smile?
Do you know what gives you that energy to fully live your life?
Maybe if we didn't focus on the negative parts in our life, we could enjoy the good parts more. And therefor become more happy. Because those bad moments happens to everyone. Trust me, you're not alone having a rough time. Perhaps you lost something you've been fighting really hard to get, or maybe you feel as if nothing is going your way at the moment.
But if we just spend some minutes to sit down and try to come up with some things that makes you smile or that makes you feel good, then we can focus on those things and hopefully forget the bad things. Because why spend time going around being miserable when you instead could enjoy the life you are given?
Although you should not chase happiness, trying to come up with different methods to become happy. Happiness is something that comes to you in different ways. And one thing that makes you happy might not be the same for another person. So what im trying to say is that each and every person has a way to find happiness, and that sometimes we might forget those ways or reasons.
