Feelings are relative abstractions at best....
while I ponder the great mysteries of my psyche in search of a new
gestalt of investing (dare I say paradigm). I often wonder how futile the whole process has become. Like an addict to heroin, has it, in the final analysis, come to pass that oprah et al. has become my opiate, my surrogate "me" - Abstract yet relative.
As an American living and working in Kuwait, I have been exposed to many experiences that have challenged the very foundations of what I would have routinely referred to as my "feelings" and "emotions". Behaviorist, i'm sure, would be quick to explain (Phobic/NonPhobic, blah, blah, blah) But I still wonder at which point one loses consciousness of self (feelings, emotions, etc.)-and in that moment attains the essence of "being"-
I have seen that essence in the eyes the TCNs (Third Country Nationals)as I go to work each morning. Workers in the oil fields working for .35/hr in 126 degrees with no provisions. Or in the eyes of the Sri Lankan and Philipina Maids sent to this country only to be used as indentured servants often ending up raped, killed, etc. "Being" (absolved of emotion) is what is in their eyes.
Christine, I (like all of us) can tune it all out if I want to. It is quite simple really. Its only an abstraction; Abstract yet relative. |
