Word of Advice: Stop thinking deeply.

Yes, friends, stop thinking deeply. Forget to ask "why?". Screw Voltaire and his fellow philosophers.

I've come to the conclusion that there are some things in life that you need to see as they are. Don't ask God why X or Y thing happened, face the fact that it happened, and move the hell on from it.

Let's put a common example in teenagers. Your friend backstabbed you. Your first reaction is to loose sleep over "Why did she do that?/Didn't she care?/etc". That thinking can make you go insane and into a manic-depressive mode.

In this situation, for example, you just need to look at it this way "She betrayed me". That's all. NO bullshit explanation. Now that you face the reality, you may act in a sane way, without trying to see whether it was the alignment of theplanets in your horoscope, God's will, whatever.

I'm not saying never think deeply or philosophically. Both are great things in moderation. But if you look at every problem with a "Why?" perspective, you're bound to go insane.

The thing is, certain situations in life have no explanation, period. They're like one of those screensavers you download from the net saying you download it "as is". Meaning it's just the way it is. There is no point to over thinking situations that have nothing else to be known of.

*end rant here*

But what if your friend backstabbed you because you are a terrible friend?

You would need to know this information - the "why" - in order to not destroy other friendships.

I think that the why is rather necessary most of the time.

That's probably good advice, but I could never follow it. I'm just wired to dissect the "why?" behind everything.

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Your friend backstabbed you. Your first reaction is to loose sleep over "Why did she do that?/Didn't she care?/etc". That thinking can make you go insane and into a manic-depressive mode.

I think I get what you're saying, but in that type of example, the reason may mean the difference between friendship and hatred. If you get backstabbed, at least considering a good reason why it happened can help you look that person in the eye again.

Or is this the type of deep thinking you were talking about...?

Day 1: I've noticed some diffrences in how I deal with people when not constantly trying to fathom the motives behind their actions and just accepting the fact of what ever is, is why think about it. this is really intresting and I shall contiune with my experiments.

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That's a very foolish thing to apply to life. If we did that, we would never have any scientific advances. Think of life without physics, biology, genetics, chemistry, the Americas. Does it scream THE DARK AGES or what?

I said SOME. I also said being deep is good occasionally, my point is, don't overdo it.

That's why she said not for all things, North.

This is my 3100 post. Yay!

That's a very foolish thing to apply to life. If we did that, we would never have any scientific advances. Think of life without physics, biology, genetics, chemistry, the Americas. Does it scream THE DARK AGES or what?

Hm, that's hard for me. Let's give it a try. . .

very deep celtic I'm gonna try taking everything at face vaalue for the next two days, see what happens and report back.