Comments on: Loss

By: Jewels

Jewels — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:04:35 +0000

I think our society gets hung up on “negative” emotions — you are raised not to express anger, sorrow, pride, etc… The negative emotions are just the other side of the coin of positive emotions. We are humans. We feel things. I think it’s unnatural not to. If you keep them bottled up, it just makes you sick. You don’t have a mind without a body — it gets effected too. How do we positively express our negative emotions?

By: ajp

ajp — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:46:25 +0000

This is a good point, when I learned about how Buddhist believe in breaking attachments leading to happiness I thought that meant cutting yourself off and learning how to not let things bother you, if you do that you will always be happy. But now I am thinking that maybe they didnt mean it like that, maybe they meant breaking attachments to one thing or one person is good because then you will be open and love everyone and everything and feel open. I think in our society we are very closed off, most times a hug that lasts to long is sexual, everything has to lead to sexual, we are very closed off and if you break those type of attachments how could you not be happy and comfortable and just be love for everyone?

Does that make sense at all?

By: primrose

primrose — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:06:54 +0000

Haha! This post speaks volumes about your British lineage, Mark.

(((how odd, though, to constantly want to control your emotions when you’re, by trade, an actor)))

By: amanda n.

amanda n. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:45:40 +0000

This is so true,a lot of my life i have thought and question these things.recently a friend of mine died,i wasn’t enormously close with him,but he was a good honest guy,and was always really nice to me.i can’t remember the last time i spoke to him,and that bothers me,everything you said i feel it.you couldn’t be more right man,nice blog.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:52:31 +0000

The heart has its own principles and language, that “logic” knows not of (it’s the wrong “tool” so to speak).

Using logic therefore to “control” the heart is not a good idea, nor is it to abandon learning the principle & language of the heart.

The language of the heart requires one to listen – really listen.. and from there we learn that such language includes acceptance, appreciation..love..
it is the language of the world.

By: rudy

rudy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:33:59 +0000

that is so true mark…and feeling what we feel for something that is trully our own would take alot from you…i tried countless reasons to understand love and how people could deal with the pressures that come along with it…loss of someone is trully and emotional spill and the mourning that follows behind it…usually i trust my judgement and logic in everything i do…doesn’t matter what scenario it may be…but i do also agree with anonymous that you should also embrace it and not over power it…people have limits…and it hurts alot…

By: MarilyneL

MarilyneL — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:38:05 +0000

You are so right, I just came back from funerals of the brother of one of my friends and even if I had not ever seen her brother I just couldn’t help but to cry. Cry deeply for her and not being able to control it, which like you mentioned, is not quite bad at all. Keeping all that energy inside eventually explodes to get out in an ugly way.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:24:20 +0000

embrace your emotions, but do not be overpowered by them. understand them in order to maintain the balance between logic and feeling. both have their place in the duality of existence.