Sunday, December 19, 2010

Awareness

If you are intensely aware of what is happening in your immediate environment, about who is looking at you and what is in their minds, about the thoughts people have in their mind when you talk to them, when you notice their reactions to each word you say and each gesture your face makes, AND you are a nice person, that is, one with a weak, sensitive heart, then: you are bound to suffer. You are bound to end up sad pretty much most of the time. Au contraire, you can look forward to getting a sense of true happiness, that is, most of the time you feel that the person to whom you are talking is smiling, he or she is indeed smiling in his or her heart and is not faking it, and you can take pride in the sincerity of this happiness. Similarly, when someone cries, you can cry with them.

If you are aware of what is happening in your immediate environment, about who is looking at you and what is in their minds, about the thoughts people have in their mind when you talk to them, when you notice their reactions to each word you say and each gesture your face makes, AND you are an asshole, consider joining marketing, or at least politics, or business. You are bound to thrive. You can also create some new “diseases” for the people of the type belonging to the previous paragraph (like manic-depressive personality syndrome, attention deficiency syndrome, lack of confidence syndrome etc), because you can rarely enjoy true happiness and sadness, because you are a manipulator and you are jealous of those who can enjoy true happiness and sadness. But you may be the person who will be labeled as a winner in life.

Now, if you belong to a third type, who is never aware of what is happening around yourself and what others are thinking about you when they talk to you, and even misjudge assholic criticisms and mockery and racism as genuine serious talk and compliments, and think of fake-alibis to avoid you as real alibis, then you will be considered a fool, and you will end up being a fool. But you are almost always going to lead a happy life.

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