There is so little time but so much time. That spent can be the worst or the best. I just had a short conversation with my neighbor, a little kid, on how mad she was that her mom was sending her to her room. She asked if my parents ever did that to me and I told her yes then asked her why she was only looking at how mad she was. It sounds like an unfair question because isolating emotions is difficult to even those older and experienced with it but maybe she’ll become an emotionally brilliant young lady. The next few hours could be her unfolding into a genius to shatter the world’s old tales of irritable and rash young women. Or maybe she’ll feel bad about it, twas nice of her to ask me for advice.
People with depression are a focus of mine because they are chemically balanced so that sadness is not an illogical placement of concern and thought but a illogical placement and expenditure of dopamine and sera-tontine. They can’t be cured because they aren’t sick, they are riding a plane who’s course can’t be altered. Their actions can be things they find pride and worth in while and even if their emotions won’t feel rewarding or valid. This is relevant for what I am aiming for now.
Normal unhappiness and anger can overtake a lot of information then turn it into crap, rubbish used for fuel to burn at its own feet. A generalized and unexamined perspective is used here usually simultaneously with strong negative emotions and a lack of positive emotions. But what are positive emotions? That question can dice both problems. Examining them both for details and reason will take the steering wheel claiming to be skepticism and reveal a whole bunch of doubt sought pessimism. But take account of how much actual time is spent on these thoughts and do a little math with how much good you want out of them. A big way to stop the irritating thoughts is to look at them mathematically as to what they will continue to produce more of then compare what you want to make. If they aren’t making anything good… well then think other thoughts, yeah?
All of our thoughts can be analyzed qualitatively but stopping them when in an undesirable or unsure state of mind can be done more easily by quantifying them and watching their rate. If I have sixteen thoughts I don’t like in twenty minutes, clearly I am not going to have anything good created randomly at the end of that time. And thoughts are easy to design and change.
There are diets, programs, councilors, all and slew of other answers for how to improve one’s mood. I suggest that one look at how their time is being invested by taking account of their thoughts taking up their time. Its your brain, you get to decide what stays, goes and is created.
