Vast Social Incompetance
I'm currently sitting down to write some holiday letters to people and I'm having the worst time thinking of what to write. Normally these kind of letters are filled with random tidbits of what a person has been doing recently, and it's not like I've been idle recently. I've been really busy actually. Contrast this with the other things I've easily spewed off in last couple days: a ten-minute speech on moral systems and three essays for college. Yet I can't actually write a personal note. This is either a sign of my vast social incompetance and/or the fact that school teaches to be really good at thinking about very interesting and abstract things that are of absolutely no practical value whatsoever.
English could be the best class; instead, it's the worst.
Analyzing the self is depressing. Ignorance is bliss.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/29/opinion/29twilson.html?ex=1293512400&en=567fc7e302d74614&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
I disagree, especially about the relationship part. The study was looking at the short term- "several months" after the initial analysis.
The article concludes on the subject of romantic relationships that "too much analysis can confuse people about how they really feel". But why not the opposite, that what people really feel confuses what they want (yes even "want" instead of "need", though they might both apply).
If the goal of a romantic relationship is, as the article makes it seem, a long term existence, then how do we know that those defficencies seen in a study of ones partner won't manifest themselves later when they are unbearable and its too late. Axe the bad relationship when its better for everyone I say.
Its the "ignorance is bliss" idea that opens up opportunities for abusive relationaships like ones where partners cheat and/or beat. Just for love right, even when love is blind-ing.
And about the other stuff what does being distracted by mundane things accomplish more than being focused on yourself. If I was a college student (isn't that a funny statement) and I had the choice only between being depressed and looking at clouds in the sky, I figure im screwed either way. But I guess I did just make a depressing self analysis.
Anyhoo, its all about looking towards the long term, not living ignorantly in the short term.
The long-term is a SHAM!