A Few Basic Questions Screamed In And At The Overwhelmed Mind

in #life6 years ago




Overwhelmed.

That's the word. That's the world.

The world is overwhelmed and so too must be any mind that thinks and feels within it—overwhelmed and driven to inaction and bewilderment. What's one to do with the information available to them? What choices is one to make? What is one supposed to feel?—how is one to feel?

Where does one go from here?—and, more importantly, why?

Why?

Unanswered and answerless questions.

Dissociation. Overloading.

These are impulses; responses to the state of being overwhelmed. Keep busy and don't ask yourself too many questions; suppress feeling and mute challenging thoughts.

Don't leave yourself with enough time to feel or think...

...it's too overwhelming.




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Absolutely; It's all too much, and what follows is 'don't think, don't feel etc'. What does the character surrounded by everyone talking at him do? He covers his ears. It's involuntary and is what we call self-preservation kicking in. But what happens when covering our ears becomes involuntary too ? When we're so tired, drained, defeated and wired by the endless reams of misinformation? The media-spin, manipulation, reports, re-runs and repeats. And it's everywhere now; wherever you go it is more then likely 'accessible', 24 hours a day.
It is mind-numbing, muted, madness. Add to that the current global situation and the Greek tragedy that passes for politics in the new millennium, and what you have is a maelstrom of doubtful, insecure and uncertain humanity living in virtual reality during an age that others could only have dreamed of living in.
Not only is the situation bad, it's getting worse. How are we letting this happen? What went wrong and when will people understand what an adverse effect this technological overdose is having on so many aspects of our lives today?

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley

Life can be very overwhelming sometimes, but that's the moment when you should stop, take a breath and priorize things, because life is to enjoy and not to live worried!

to be overwhelmed is to be worried and it is a negative energy, in life there are bad and good things, everything is in taking things with clamor everything has its learning and time, in addition there is always to be positive to expect the best,

wonderful post full of positivity.A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Accept what you can’t change. Change what you can’t accept.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Bite off more than you can chew.
Bloom where you’re planted.
Counting other people’s sins does not make you a saint.

I was actually thinking about something like this today,although I didn't know it exists already. I was washing dishes and I thought, would it be cool to have something almost like twitch, but that uses the steem blockchain.Great post. Thank you for sharing the insight.

Wow thanks for this post, so comprehensive you answer every question I have ever had but didn't know who to ask about....

Interesting post

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