Chapter 4 – Focus is Everything
I find often that people around dwell in their suffocating existence, along bringing, or trying to, everyone that surrounds them. People try and for some odd reason, they find justification to their mental instability. Sometimes, it feels, as to not appear crazy, they will bring the idea of you crazy and wrong. It is important to understand the basis of this problem. People are fragile beings, and proof goes when we see how sensitive the world has become around every subject. Some more than other, live in such insecurity and instability that I consider it a mental disorder. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do as only time can tell if those affected will decide to do something about it, but meanwhile, there is something we can do for ourselves. As people unfold their emotions on you, you are drawn to engage in this fight, perhaps to defend your truth or perhaps it’s a matter of honor. As correct that may seem, that is the main problem with this strategy. By engaging an irrational person, we involuntarily accept it as being an argument, and therefore justifiable. Emotions will make people do crazy things and an analytical and smart mind will always try to put his emotion aside in order to make an assessment. He won’t act on impulses and sure as hell he won’t engage somebody’s emotional instability. Pureness of the mind comes in the absence of pretenses. To support such instability put you in a vulnerable position, where emotions of another, will clash with the emotions of you, driving you to the same hole where the other person stands in. We most find it in us to live purely and that is the only way to live right. For this, we need to focus, and focus when it gets the hardest. Focus is being able to withhold your emotions to somebody trying to provoke them. I find people are selfish and to justify their ends, they will bring yours to theirs so they are not alone. It’s not everyone and please take my word with ease as my words are simply meant to help, not insult or insinuate a blockade of collaboration in an argument between people. There are people that have real concerns and it is not an instability of the mind, but for the cases that we are certain, where we know the other person has a few internal issues to deal with, be wary. Focus on never allowing your body to be taken by the control of emotions. Emotions, as we know, are not something you can just make disappear nor should it be your intension as they are the pureness that makes us souls in bodies. To focus right, you must make peace with yourself and to accept your best behavior as the worst and your worst behavior as your best. I say that like that but what I mean by it is that we need to stop judging everything we do as wrong. We try our best, and even though you don’t succeed at times, effort should be enough to make it right. Sometimes, a little wrong can make a little right, and as odds as it may seem, our true intention truly defines the good and the bad. Once that peace is there, you will find it easy to disconnect with the instable, as your intentions are pure, and theirs’s are selfish. There is a time for everything, and knowing when to stand your ground and when to not, requires a lifetime of experience to truly master. Little by little, you will make it, as long as you believe in it. Take a deep breath, look around and find it in your heart that you are good. Suddenly, you will be.
-Alekor
June 17, 2016