Emotions and feelings are central to our life. They allow us to exist and achieve the fullness of our personality by motivating us towards that which is good. Everybody has different story/situations/problems to deal with. As its aptly said ,
“We're all in the same game, just different levels.
Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.”
No matter how good an individual is to others, there will be situations where he/she may be taken for granted ,called obsequious , or maybe on grounds of hypocrisy called “fake” .People are so limited to thinking conventionally and judging , that they can never open up to new and different approaches to life. People (including friends) want to see you happy, but not happier than themselves.
Whether it’s about following a religion, choosing a career ,consuming alcohol, smoking, choosing to love , sexual preferences , etc it’s all an individual’s choice. Everybody knows what is good for them, we all are wise enough to take our own decisions. The fact that, they can think and come to a conclusion has a thought that initiates it, that itself has its own meaning.
It’s when we get to the social world that things really get gnarly. A lot of our thinking is for bonding, not truth-seeking, so most of us are quite willing to think or say anything that will help us be liked by our group. We’re quite willing to disparage anyone when, as Marilynne Robinson once put it,
“the reward is the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved.”
And when we don’t really know a subject well enough, in T. S. Eliot’s words,
“we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts,”
and go with whatever idea makes us feel popular.
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Apple Inc.
