a lois lane to a superman. i want to be the lovely spark in a man's eye.
my day's worth of conciousness streaming was a tad bit much on the negative side.
oh the negative side, the negative side, the negative side.
but it really all comes down to the lack of comfort in my life, of myself.
"...[B]eing genuinely authentic-something experts define as knowing who you are and what you value and being true to those things in your daily life-is vile to happiness..." Am i genuinely authentic?
"Research shows that if you talk about what you believe and identify with what you say, rather than hiding yourself from others, you'll be a happier person," says Kennon Sheldon, Ph.D., professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Am i a happy person?
Sudden realization...i believe i treat ppl as cases rather than individuals, only in my mind though. i over evaluate and analyze... but better yet this is just a theory on how i think..i have to finish thinking this one through...i'll put that on a note to self basis.
"To achive peak happiness-autonomy, competence and relatedness- we have to do what we believe, do it well, keep getting better at it and connect to otehr people in the process, The surest way to achive all that is to live authentically."
"We all have versions of ourself that pull us in different directions"
thoughtful observations to live by and ponder over.
I think you, like most of us, are kind of genuinely authentic-something. You're not conforming, that is just completely giving in and just forgetting what you value or what you want.
ReplyDeleteBut, then again, is ANYONE authentic and genuine? No one is perfect.
To a certain degree you are happy. There are little sparks in your day that make you smile or thoughts that make you feel like you're floating for a nanosecond. Yes, it is good to talk about your thoughts to others. It's best when you don't expect them to tell you what you feel is right or wrong, but when they simply listen to you. All we really need to feel whole is to know someone will listen to us. Or so I think.
Ha, ha. I'm a person-analyzer, as well. It's fun when you don't know the person or when you don't really care about them. I try hard not to do so with friends because then I get paranoid. I can tell, though, that you analyze everything, even inanimate objects, huh? Sometimes. Don't worry, that's not weird.
Hm. IDK, all this talk about authenticity is annoying me now. Because WHO is defining authenticity? As long as you're not following what the norm is to the general public of shallow zombies, you're good. But then again, who the f*** am I to negate what others say when they have every right to believe in what they believe? In other words, don't even follow anything I say unless it resonates with you.
LL
Alma