worth it to someone who is in enough emotional hell, but personally, I think feeling numb sucks. Feeling numb leaves you “feeling” something- it’s called “empty” and it’s not a good place to be. Also, sometimes you still manage to feel bored by not feeling much else. Don’t get me wrong- if I felt so mentally anguished that I thought I would go insane, yeah I’d prob. want to feel less, too. Yes, I’d prob. even pick feeling nothing over that. However, I’d rather feel some emotional pain than to feel nothing. That doesn’t mean that I want anything bad to happen to cause me to feel pain, but when something bad happens I don’t want to never care or feel at all. If I am going to be alive, I want to feel something. Hurting when your loved ones hurt, for instance, is part of caring.
Also, while it can hurt you to care about someone, you miss out if you don’t let yourself have that. I have to admit, though, I try to avoid such things these days. I also have to admit that despite it’s ocassional usefulness when it is in the right situation to the right degree, I wish I didn’t feel any fear sometimes. Yet not only do I want to feel alive, but I want to have the ability to care about others. I think part of the problem with the world today is that people don’t feel and care enough. They don’t care enough or feel enough empathy, love, or remorse to keep them from hurting others, or they don’t feel enough outrage to go against injustice and cruelty. They don’t feel enough passion to chase their dreams or enough disgust at bad things to stand against them. They don’t feel enough empathy to help others. And parents don’t care about their kids, etc. I mean, the world needs emotion. It could use less of certain emotions though….or at least use them in better directed ways. For instance, it is important to be afraid of something that is truly a threat, but only to a degree that helps you recognize it, be careful when dealing with it, and to stay safe around it. If fear is too great it is not only a terrible pain to the one experiencing it, but i can also inhibit their ability to think, function, escape, etc. and is counter-productive. Also, we need less fear concerning things that don’t deserve fear, such as people fearing anyone different, or people having phobias of spiders, etc. Some healthy fear of spiders is good, I suppose, since you don’t want to touch deadly ones or get bitten, but generally speaking most of them are just hanging out trying to catch insects for a snack and won’t hurt you, so being scared to death of them is undesirable. So, yes we could use less fear of things that don’t need much fear, we could use no fear of things that deserve no fear, and only a healthy amount of fear towards really threatening things- not enough to make someone terribly miserable and inhibit functioning. But the world needs some emotions, and it needs A LOT more passion about certain things, a lot more love/empathy/compassion/etc., and things of that nature. And while I wish there was less sufefering in the world, I wouldn’t say I want people to never get upset at all no matter what happens, because getting upset is part of caring and love. I personally appreicate knowing I can feel something. I could go on and I didn’t describe this very well, but I’m tired and apaprently a little too apathetic to perfect this post right now, ironically. Yet, I do care enough to post it. Laughs
Oh, one last thing- although I know people seek things to numb them when they feel bad enough, people who can’t feel also seek things to make them feel- sometimes even to make them feel negative things. I think some balance of things is best. Not too much emotional hell (though a lot of positive feelings are good as long as you aren’t oblivious to the bad going on or don’t care about it), but not total emotional death, apathy, and numbness.
