my life long spiritual and otherwise struggle has been to stop differentiating between the so called good and bad things in the society. i call it spiritual as this same journey takes me to a path were the sense of "self" absolves or in other words the self is reflected in all. once that happens the pain of having and not having theoretically vanishes as there is no difference between me and you. the same way the deep spirituality in me has always told me that there cannot be any bad in this creation. it is just a check and balance, if there is no black there is no white. so essentially calling an emotion or act as negative or dark always bothered me. but once again the socio-normativeness makes me fall in the trap of things which are supposed to be bright and acceptable.
i was talking to my therapist last morning when she asked me how would my life feel without intellectualizing it. a simple question at the surface but the answer is pretty unconvincing. i just told her i do not know how to just feel without the thought of it being intellectual. is it a handicap that i am born with or it is there in others too? are there people who just feel without the need to make up or break logic?
i,for one, have learnt that i can feel without or even against all logic and rationalizing. the problem face is not in the inability to feel without rationalizing or intellectualizing but in suppressing, or ignoring, or restraining these feelings because of my normative conditioning. i have found out from experience that such against the grain behaviour is soul destroying.
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