Aug 3, 2010

Body and Soul, Ed Thigpen

wo, I love this song.



Sometimes I can’t help but wonder why people’s emotion can change so fast from one to the other moment. I guess it means that we should not trust in our feelings too much. It may betray you at any time, without any warnings.

After learning this fact, one can live out his life much easier. Dumped by a girl, loss from a game, swollen by the big tragic real world… may be extremely depressed at that time, but your soul is still complete and won’t be harmed just because of these things. A thing happened at the next moment may change the feeling totally, completely. The sucking sadness and disappointment can disappear in just a minute, and we barely notice, ‘cause we’re bathing in the happiness which comes too suddenly.

May be a person you meet, a sentence in a book, or an idea from God, changes the world you’ve seen before.

SO… when I believe that I’m pissed off, I have to tell myself that I’m not that pissed off. It’s just what I feel at that moment. People always deal with things more wisely when they calm down.

人的情緒轉換之快,有時真叫人吃驚。只是一瞬間而已噢。代表著我們不能太過於信任自己的感覺吧?也許隨時都會被背叛的,在沒有任何預警之下。這誰也說不準。

一旦發現這個事實,生活就變得輕鬆許多。被喜歡的女孩子甩,輸掉自己在意的比賽,在失望中逐漸被這充滿悲劇性的現實世界吞噬…在當下也許極度痛苦,但從中立的角度來看,我們本身的靈魂是毫髮無傷的。一點傷痕都沒有。不會因為這些小事,就對我們的生命早成永久性地破壞的。接下來發生的事情根本性地改變了心情,這是極有可能的。所有令人窒息的難受,忽然間就這麼消失了,而我們甚至沒有察覺,或許在那瞬間降臨的喜悅之下。

也許…下一個時刻遇見的那個人,書上讀到的那句話,上帝給的一個啟示,就徹底的改變了我們所看見的世界。

所以,當感覺很不高興時,我就得告訴自己其實沒那麼生氣。不過是當下的感覺罷了。人在冷靜下來時總是會做出比較明智的決定的。