happiness and fear.
Friday, November 9th, 2007if fear and happiness are unique to each person and to cultures, then they must be conditional and learned emotions. does this mean that we can unlearn our fears, and learn our chosen happinesses?
take your deepest fear. maybe it’s being alone, truly only listening to your own voice. perhaps it’s running out of money. it could be never achieving your definition of success, or being too “different,” or showing your vulnerability. whatever it is, it’s impeding you every single day. you will only ever truly be self-realized once you have overcome this fear, and effectively unlearned it.
so what does it take to do this? the first step is unburying this fear, coming face to face with it. next is identifying the behavior patterns it results in. then somehow you’ve got to reverse these behaviors, without going too far in the opposite direction. condition yourself not to be afraid. learn happiness. this is the task of living that is before each one of us.