Intensity.

Have you ever, asked yourself why you can handle success but not failure? asked yourself why you can handle comfort and not discomfort? asked yourself why you can handle endless pleasure but not a second of boredom? asked yourself why can handle compliments but not rejections?

Hello there, I'm the Earthian.

Now before you ask me "what kind of a question is that?" and tell me that obviously we like all of the formers and none of the latters because the former is just something that makes us feel good about ourselves, let me ask you if it isn't all about how we absorb the situations we are in and how we respond to them.

The ultimate aim of ours has always been to get happy some way or the other. And when and if things go our way, we never even bother to wonder why these things happened the way they did but on the flip side, when and if things go sideways, we come up with all sorts of questions and make up all the bad scenarios in our minds. What is it that makes us question all the bad things that happen and not the good things? It's because of our responses to the bad incidents that happen. When something bad happens we immediately take the negative side and make the situation a lot worse than they actually are. We make things seem like the end of the world. We tend to exponentially increase the intensity of the situation, mostly because we feel like we need to, again because we think that's how we should respond.

On the other hand, though, we tend to limit our happiness when we get the opportunity to be happy. We tend to think maybe, just maybe, things are too light and good to actually be real and hence take the reality out of it.
It's so funny how we keep travelling towards what's exactly the opposite of our destination, even when we do get rerouted with nature's help.

Lots of love, peace.