The desire for liberation from an oppressive environment often generates tremendous and decisive force. Through it, the personality reaches an unusual level of solidity, feeling incorruptible when the oppression subsides, or when one learns to overcome it with less friction. Then alternatives can be glimpsed. Sometimes it is possible to create a new environment, or at least make an effort to do so, something whose effects can be comforting. When it is not possible, that’s okay too: oppression, when not felt too much, ends up strengthening.
Tag: psychology
It Is Difficult to Imagine a Prolonged State…
It is difficult to imagine a prolonged state in which the personality is not disturbed by conflicting elements. Such disturbances, whether external or internal, cannot be totally overcome. What they can is to be tolerated, analyzed and absorbed. And the personality is made by what remains after confronting them. If we think about it for a moment, it can sometimes be indignant to realize that the shock is often gratuitous and damaging. But then we realize that personality is an effort, and we see the merit in persisting in its depuration.
It Is Very Difficult to Accustom the Mind…
It is very difficult to accustom the mind to the stoic precept of not worrying about the conditions about which nothing can be done, because these are often the most torturous and the ones that one would most like to overcome. However, it can be seen that the resulting tension is almost always due to the contrast between reality and a desired situation, the latter being the work of desire and this being the child of self-love. Thus, it is clear that to destroy self-love is to break down this whole chain of suffering, but how difficult it is to do so without slipping into unproductive inertia! It takes a long time for the mind to get used to acting without expectations, and when this beatific state is reached, one realizes that it is also unstable, and requires a lot of effort to make it last.
It Is Interesting to Note That Some Personalities…
It is interesting to note that some personalities are based on an irrational element which, although it may seem absurd at times, acts as a unifier. Just imagining it absent, the whole being falls apart. However, the attribute of mad people that they often receive is, if not false, extremely simplistic. Because the same irrationality that throws up the most outrageous contradictions, that leads to incredible errors, that clouds reason and gets out of control, is also responsible for a cohesion, an energy and a resilience that seem superhuman. Personalities like this, unusual but existing, invalidate behavioral manuals and, in the end, enrich the concept of man.