(September 28, 2016 at 4:43 pm)abaris Wrote:(September 28, 2016 at 4:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I allow them to happen, but I don't allow them to rule me, insofar as that's possible.
Which often times is impossible. I think your post already implies that.
Indeed, and I regard those times as failures.
That, too, is a feeling, which I won't invest in. I find I'm much more content, as a preson, watching the wheel of my emotions -- it's kind of like when we were kids at the airport, watching planes land and take off, but none carrying me anywhere.
I've found that both happiness and unhappiness are both transient. Rather than get attached to minor emotions which bring on those meta-emotions, it seems better to me to let go of them, and use their comings and goings for sake of analysis.
