I wish a machine would give me access to other people’s feelings. I am not interested in their secrets, even though I can imagine it would be very entertaining -and shocking- to find all the skeletons hidden in the closets, but the truth is, human beings puzzle me. I would love to see what others feel and think, and why they act the way they do.
I understand fear, and I have experienced love and I would lie if I said I never felt hatret. But even if as a young girl, I knew that hatred and negativity wouldn’t get me anywhere.
Maybe because I have felt hate toward me. Interestingly enough it came from the woman who was supposed to love me the most. I know what fear feels like because I have lived through it. And I have loved, and still do, more times than I can count.
What makes some people so good? It’s not religion or upbringing, no, it’s something more complex, something embedded deep inside them that doesn’t let them be any other way. Just as the bad seems to be deeply rooted within some.
Can we change our way?
How does a rich man feel and what makes the poor fight so hard. I have met some, and it helped to understand parts of it. In boarding school, I sat at the table with girls who came from wealthy homes, who had chauffeurs bringing them to school, who had a monthly allowance that was as high as mine was for one year.
As I envied them at the beginning, I later learned that many wished to have a life like mine. The life of an Austrian farmgirl was something rich girls from Germany, Spain, and other countries in Europe wished they would have. It took some time to understand. I met some rich and famous when I worked as a translator. I saw the poor I never noticed when we didn’t have much ourselves.
What makes people tick? Imagine I would have the answer to this question.
What does the hero feel and why can’t the cowards not help themself and continue to be weak?
A window to other people’s dreams and wishes, to see the secret dreams and hear their quiet laughter as well as the uncried tears.
Why are some so calm, when others fall to pieces and what makes some so mean?
To have access to other people’s souls to see their dreams and wishes, to see the hidden dreams and hear the quiet laughter as well as the uncried tears.
Yes, that’s what I truly wonder about. Nothing makes me more curious than a human being.
I try to live my own life consistent with a certain formula. Not a religion, but a set of beliefs nonetheless. If people know my formula, then I am boring and predictable. But yes, many people seem to have a formula just of self-interest.
Getting inside another person’s mind…
to feel another person’s emotions…
to see another person’s experience…
to intuitively connect with the intuitions of another person… C.G. Jung tried all this,
and he looked into himself in all his patients… The soul is one, everything is one… Jung painted a picture of God by discovering the people…
Thomas Mann’s phrase, “deeply deep is the well of the past” refers to the depth of history.
But to see into a person means to see into a personal history.
The conscious is only the surface. In the depths there is the personal and collective unconscious, which are better not to disturb. Because it is life itself, and perhaps the only soul of God.
I suppose that’s a good explanation as any IF you believe in god(s) of any kind. I am agnostic, I don’t claim any religion, neither do I claim to be an atheist, I claim to not know if a god or gods exist.
I don’t know if we have a soul or not either.
I suppose some of us dig deeper, because it’s there nature. Conscious, ethics, moral, values, education, experience, perhaps a mix of all.
The essence of my therapeutic work was understanding what I was feeling in the relationship.
Did you ever find out?
Essential – sometimes it would be transference
Great quote by Einstein. He had a brilliant mind, but I don’t believe he was very good at figuring out people. 🙂
I wish I had a magic wand that could take away the desire that many have to seek someone to blame, rather than them trying to find a solution!
The first rule of mediation is to talk about feelings, so your curiosity is well placed. I think we would all like to know why some folks think and feel the way they do and this might lead to a better understanding, rather than criticizing what they think or feel. Happy Friday. Allan
The answers might scare ya lol
It might, but not knowing is scary too 🙂
very true