Sunday, 4 August 2013

Human Nature


Its impressive and great to know about human psychology .It has always interested me to dig more and more into it .Why someone loves a person who doesn't care for him or her, why a mother loves her child even if he leaves her,and she longs to live with him even after that ,these questions have always revolved inside my brain and to some of my queries i have found answers too.We human's respond to stimuli differently ,is perceived by psychologists but i think they are wrong, we all respond to a negative stimuli with utmost impatience, totally avoid it in first case, then defend ourselves and then finally we accept the situation with open arms with a change.Life is like an onion with layers  and every negative situation opens one layer from inside us and makes us more vulnerable and at the same time better equipped to face another challenge life has for us .We all have the habit to compare our past with our present ,according to most of us our past was better than our present,in another similar situation while comparing two friends who both have betrayed us in our past we often tend to make our judgement by scoring the previous one as better compared to the latter ,actually the current betrayal has just opened one of our layer and made us vulnerable, so we make regrets and compare the previous negative situation and the harm we had faced during our previous betrayal is somewhere deep forgotten in us we come with the conclusion that the previous betrayal was not as bad as the current one .Often we make such judgements when there is not much great difference in the nature's of the person who had betrayed us. In another situation faced by us ,that is when we loose a loved one ,we tend to push our self alone in a corner keep ourselves isolated ,we all do that this means we all respond to a stimuli in a similar manner .Then where does the difference lie?The difference lie in our judgement whenever see someone reacting against us ,that has hampered  our inner social vulnerability ,we tend to judge the person as bad ,stupid or by any other negative word or pronoun. Being a Philosophy student i have read philosophies of various philosophers like Kant, Ryle ,Locks,Berkley, Gita,Gandhi and the Buddha  and i also read their criticisms what does this show? This shows that our work ,our nature will be judged differently by different people because of their intelligence,ego's and judgmental nature, this doesn't mean that we should become against a person we should leave him or her listen to his or her criticisms and make necessary changes within us if we feel so,and if the person matter to us,as i feel criticisms are stepping stones towards are growth,mainly growth towards a more human self. When Lord Buddha had faced criticism in his life who are we to left behind.Thus we should take criticisms positively.

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