IShotLazer
Smash Journeyman
A lot of people don't understand this concept and that's okay.
Some people have simply never been introduced to it.
Anyway here it is.
People do things because it makes them content, every course of action you take is because you currently thought that it would be the best course of action possible at the time.
Everytime you breathe it was because you thought it was the best course of action.
Reading this small article at the time, you felt was the best course of action. Perhaps you did it to argue back and that's what you find stimulating, perhaps you did it because you were lazy and concluded within yourself that this is the easiest, most productive, least emotionally stressing thing you could have done.
Even doing what you might see as a bad deed objectively, you still did for what you saw at the time for a justified reason. Sometimes it's easy. Easy doesn't stress people out.
Even emotions that you feel your brain concluded that, THAT would be the most stimulating, satisfying emotion at the time. Sometimes there is none at all. Happiness is NOT the same as contentment. The two are used interchangable all the time however they DO have different meanings. Some people are honestly content with feeling what some see as a negative emotion. Some people go out of their way to cause trouble and anguish however to them, this is contentment.
I'm sure most people have gone out of their way to experience sadness or at least deep empathy. Have you ever watched a sad movie KNOWING that you were going to be sad as a end result? Sometimes, it's relieving to be able to experience multiple emotions so we go out of our way to experience them. This is a small example of what I mean. Almost everyone will do this a couple times which is perfectly normal, however a select few actually do this all the time. Because these people's drives are different in that they strive to experience a different emotion we see them as crazy... quite frankly they are to societies standards. Then again crazy is a relative term and you can take it for what you will.
No matter, it is still the basic human drive to achieve contentment in some form or another.
The second part, if that is what you want to call it, means every action that you take is the best action you could have made throwing in emotional attachment, a deeper understanding of something, just plain out bad logic, or habitual attachment.
There are more things that affect it, I'm just trying to get the general concept down.
Say you're being lazy and not studying. You know deep down you should be studying for a better future, however you have justified within yourself that it's not the best course of action. You probably did it because it's habitual. Perhaps you felt you had better things to do at the moment, or perhaps you just didn't want to go through a stressing situation at the time. Even though logically you KNEW you should have, emotionally or perhaps physiologically you already concluded that NOT studying was indeed a better course of action.
People need to realize that no matter what, we are never fully objective to ourselves. We can be reflective and change but we still are subjective to our own limitations.
People who strive to better their lives are still set within this boundary, however they have realized what makes them more content and are willing to go through the hardships to reach it. They said to themselves I'm doing this to make myself happier(content) in the long run, however at the same time again they were content with this very action because they had justification for it.
I find this hard to believe sometimes and feel it's flawed(It's got to be somewhere in there)... but at the moment I felt this is the best way to sum up what I mean... Not a great job T_T. Explaining things has never been my strong suit, and perhaps I'm just plain out wrong. Either way, take it for what you will.
Some people have simply never been introduced to it.
Anyway here it is.
People do things because it makes them content, every course of action you take is because you currently thought that it would be the best course of action possible at the time.
Everytime you breathe it was because you thought it was the best course of action.
Reading this small article at the time, you felt was the best course of action. Perhaps you did it to argue back and that's what you find stimulating, perhaps you did it because you were lazy and concluded within yourself that this is the easiest, most productive, least emotionally stressing thing you could have done.
Even doing what you might see as a bad deed objectively, you still did for what you saw at the time for a justified reason. Sometimes it's easy. Easy doesn't stress people out.
Even emotions that you feel your brain concluded that, THAT would be the most stimulating, satisfying emotion at the time. Sometimes there is none at all. Happiness is NOT the same as contentment. The two are used interchangable all the time however they DO have different meanings. Some people are honestly content with feeling what some see as a negative emotion. Some people go out of their way to cause trouble and anguish however to them, this is contentment.
I'm sure most people have gone out of their way to experience sadness or at least deep empathy. Have you ever watched a sad movie KNOWING that you were going to be sad as a end result? Sometimes, it's relieving to be able to experience multiple emotions so we go out of our way to experience them. This is a small example of what I mean. Almost everyone will do this a couple times which is perfectly normal, however a select few actually do this all the time. Because these people's drives are different in that they strive to experience a different emotion we see them as crazy... quite frankly they are to societies standards. Then again crazy is a relative term and you can take it for what you will.
No matter, it is still the basic human drive to achieve contentment in some form or another.
The second part, if that is what you want to call it, means every action that you take is the best action you could have made throwing in emotional attachment, a deeper understanding of something, just plain out bad logic, or habitual attachment.
There are more things that affect it, I'm just trying to get the general concept down.
Say you're being lazy and not studying. You know deep down you should be studying for a better future, however you have justified within yourself that it's not the best course of action. You probably did it because it's habitual. Perhaps you felt you had better things to do at the moment, or perhaps you just didn't want to go through a stressing situation at the time. Even though logically you KNEW you should have, emotionally or perhaps physiologically you already concluded that NOT studying was indeed a better course of action.
People need to realize that no matter what, we are never fully objective to ourselves. We can be reflective and change but we still are subjective to our own limitations.
People who strive to better their lives are still set within this boundary, however they have realized what makes them more content and are willing to go through the hardships to reach it. They said to themselves I'm doing this to make myself happier(content) in the long run, however at the same time again they were content with this very action because they had justification for it.
I find this hard to believe sometimes and feel it's flawed(It's got to be somewhere in there)... but at the moment I felt this is the best way to sum up what I mean... Not a great job T_T. Explaining things has never been my strong suit, and perhaps I'm just plain out wrong. Either way, take it for what you will.
