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| post | Wanton abuse of meaningless truisms | 2018-01-20 |
Rule 38 from my life code is ‘Philosophising never actually helped anybody.’
This is an attempt to combat my unfortunate tendency to react to emotional situations with positive philosophy.
Such a reaction, while my trademark, is…not all that helpful. Sympathy and other emotionally ‘active’ reactions would be a damn sight better, I think.
Philosophical musing has its place. That place isn’t helping people.
Just because a fact about life is painfully true, doesn’t make it useful to be reminded of in that moment. Sure, it helps me a fair bit. But I’m not exactly *typical in my emotional processing. *(If there is such a thing)
That actually brings to mind a tangential but related point. I vaguely remember reading that men and women react to life issues in different manners.
Men instinctually look for solutions, while women want to be listened to.
Anecdotally, this has proven true repeatedly. It goes a long way to explain the difficulty in resolving (heterosexual) relationship issues.
I’m not entirely sure what my point is…I’m philosophically musing about… philosophical musing. Further, it’s important to recognise when musing is relevant, and when it isn’t.
In summary… emotions are damned tricky
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That’s a meaningless truism in and of itself isn’t it. Damn!