What I've written thus far has been very meta, but I must understand and write about practicality. I know I write from a cushy abode, where there is no worry, no logistics; from settled ground, where there is no uncertainty, the only uncertainty is probably what's for dinner, or what's to be done on the weekend; and I write detached with limited emotions because I'm so far removed, far away, and I write with limited experience.
Let me write about when you find yourself in a situation where there is uncertainty, a conflict of human emotions with people who you share a bond with. This is all real, practical, a raw demonstration of emotions, this is what makes us human.
All of the emotions are only transient, what remains and must remain is the human bond. The practicality is a side effect, it might involve physical strain, pain, and the emotional aspect of it all. It may all seem unrelated, especially the physical and mental discomfort, but the overarching governor is the mind, controlling it all.
Human conflicts are primarily all unnecessary, resolvable, temporal, that lose steam in a few rotations of the earth, all but a few anecdotes that cover a couple of lines in, on an average a 80*365 page book, a standard biography. It is important to understand and recognise these negative feelings, to let them flow naturally, but not to let them float, sustain and grow.
Now-days, practicality is irrevocably intertwined with materialism, money and ego; all man made constructs that the human world revolves around. But, really all we should crave is a safe haven, a happy family, a lineage, a roof, a sustainable source of food, and a hospitable and welcoming society.
Practicality is an inherent function of our emotions, you can either direct your emotions to the positive, consider them adventures, or rather let them weigh you down. It is all individual, how you perceive what is around you, how you choose to deal with it, and how it affects you personally. It starts at an individual level, and subsequently, that is what you radiate, that transcends over to those around you, who then choose to absorb it as they individually see fit. Hence, you are a radiation field. You absorb, process emotions and radiate your perception of those emotions. The onus lies on you, individually, so it is imperative you perceive emotions consciously, and not as alien entities that lie beyond your control.
Instinct kicks in at times, and it is innate, unavoidable, which causes certain actions that are all but fluctuations of the emotional wave that flows inside you. It is important to register and be cognisant of that ever-present wave of emotion within, and in times of uncertainty to detach yourself from these emotions, which are intertwined with you and your thought process at that juncture, and hence to free yourself from your own self, and move to a higher, all encompassing abode that allows a bird’s eye view, and from there to look at things holistically, at face value, without prejudice, ego or any preconceived bias. And that can be achieved through, careful, conscious, silent introspection. Look within your mind, at all of the random thoughts that are swirling within. When you indulge in this careful self analysis, you are pulling yourself to that holistic over arching space, a place of detachment, and from there you will realise how incoherent, irrelevant our thoughts inherently are.
Ingrain in your self this practice of over-arching, holistic, careful, silent introspection, in face of emotional adversities, and you will see how the complexities that seemed so intricately and impossibly tangled in a series of complex man-made practicalities, will simply just untwine.
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