Category: Emotions

Happiness

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Be Happy and Cherish Moments to remain in Mind

Hey everyone, I hope you all have been safe and staying home because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has flipped our life upside down. Regardless, I hope that you all are taking the time to have fun and spending time with your family and loved ones.

Today’s blog post discusses the importance of happiness, which I find is quite appropriate for our present, chaotic circumstances. The emotion of happiness can act as an anchor in any given situation and circumstance, however, it is up to you to decide whether you will let it anchor you to the ground or let you sink in despair. Regardless, life continues to thrive and prosper without us interfering in it. Do not worry about things that are out of your control, because you cannot control everything. I won’t pretend to understand what kinds of challenges you all may be facing, but just take it one step at a time and think about the next right thing to do, while you are home with one another. 

If you are alone take up a hobby or try something new that you may have been wanting to try for some time but were reluctant to start.  Do what makes you happy and also do the things that make you feel excited, in turn forgetting about all the sadness that is taking place in the world around us.  

I strongly believe that happiness should be the center of one’s universe and whatever is orbiting one’s happiness should align like they are stars of passion. Let your heart guide you on a journey within yourself to find new goals and passions that have the potential to open up new possibilities for you.

Be happy, be yourself, love yourself and cherish the people close to you in your heart. During the tough times and good times, there will be family, friends, colleagues who will be there to cheer you on, celebrate with and support you when rough times rear its head. These global crises can prove to be a perfect beginning to connect with people who you would generally not get time to talk to due to our regular busy lifestyle. The world is slowed down and nature is recovering from our torment we cause with all the pollution and dangers. It is the perfect time to see nature in its full beauty and splendour. Be happy, go for walks, talk to people, but exercise social distancing.

I want you all to understand that this setback is not worth worrying about because it is out of our control; all we can do is continue to be happy and cherish the moments we have and spend time with each other but most of all support one other in this hard time.  

Happiness isn’t what you find at the end of the road. It’s right here. Right now

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I want to conclude by saying that “Happiness is to viewed in moments you spend in the fun with one another or with doing an activity that you enjoy.” Don’t let these times be the times that bring you down, because happiness will continue to rein you in from desperation and all the chaos that is present in the world. So be happy to live your life to the fullest in these tough times. 

Roses

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Hey, guys, I have been extremely busy with studies and exams and sorts. But now I am free. So I will try to publish as many blogs as possible.

In my quest to explore love it is futile not to consider the symbolism of love, which we celebrate on Valentine’s day by gifting a rose to a special someone or to ourselves. In many cases, roses have also been depicted as flowers of pain that can be caused by various emotions, but in this case, we will focus on its association with love. It is important to note, however, that roses have taken on many forms of cultural importance around the world.

In order to further explore love let us use the example of a rose as a manifestation/symbol of love. For this blog I want you to visualize a rose and each part of this rose has various meanings of love. Let us start with the stem which connects to the petals. I would like to think that the stem symbolizes connectedness of oneself to everyone else in the world and around us that means that we are all capable of loving one another. The second part of the rose is its thorns in which case we depict love to be painful. Similarly, I want you to think that these thorns of the rose are a test to see if you and your lover are able to grow and understand each other regardless of your differences. The third part of the rose are the petals that are symbolic in a way that each petal that we pluck is a fleeting experience or a moment of time that one spends with their lover. Petals also symbolize the fragility of love, meaning that one is willed to enjoy and cherish their time with one another. Due to the fragility of love, they both are willed in attempting to make every time momentous and memorable for each other to lead a healthy life together. The last characteristic of the rose is, of course, the overall beauty of the flower. The beauty of the rose sums up the emotion of love because it is the living embodiment of the emotion love, thus, the rose can be seen as much more than a flower, but rather a teaching tool for heartaches and memories that love causes for the two people.  

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

——–Katharine Lee Bates


To conclude the post I want to just say that one should love everyone around them, love their life partner, and lastly, love themselves. Let the moments you spend with people around you, whether it may be strangers or loved ones, be filled with roses.

Anxiety

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We all know as a fact that anxiety is a mental illness. But to understand how anxiety affects us, we need to delve into the understanding of human nature. As a matter of fact, anxiety plays a large role in all the emotions. It is easy to conclude that anxiety affects how we conceptualize our situations and our circumstances. Anxiety can be frustrating to handle because it makes us restless, stressed, and most of all, disrupt our daily activities. Anxiety also gives us a sense of insecurity that we genuinely do not know how to counter, because it constantly derails our confidence and self-esteem. In many cases, our human nature revolves around our sense of purpose that we believe validates our existence, but when that purpose becomes unclear when the anxiety takes root, and if one gets worried and stressed, that anxiety festers on and on until it starts to affect our entire life.

Thus far, we have only explained the cause of anxiety and the effects it has on our lives and our daily activities. But, now lets flip that and see how anxiety can also help us move further in our goals for the future. The effects of anxiety mentioned above are the long-term manifestations if we allow that anxiety to become ingrained in our core being within our minds. However, in the short-term, it can help one to gain heightened senses where it will help us overcome distractions that constantly derail our progress. Anxiety can also help one to establish a sense of direction when there is a lot of work that needs to be accomplished in a short period of time.

I completely acknowledge and fully understand how anxiety can affect mental well-being, however, we all have some level of anxiety within us, so one must gain wisdom and an understanding that anxiety will be present in some capacity as we go ahead and accomplish whatever goals and dreams we have planned. We cannot let anxiety dictate our course. Even though I understand that anxiety has affected many lives, it does not hold a candle to one’s willpower and inner strength in moving forward, which has the ability to silence one’s anxiety as they progress forward in their lives. So be positive that everything will work out; although it will not show results fast, know that your efforts will never go in vain in your mission to accomplish what you set out to do in life, and know that everything takes time, so take one step at a time to reach your goals.

 Anxiety does not empty tommorrow of it’s sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

——–Charles Spurgeon

Sadness

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What is sadness? Think about this question while reading this blog you may of the bat have a preconceived notion that this post will be depressing and it would not be worth reading. But I challenge you to not assume or have a preconceived notion just from the title of this blog. You must also be wondering why is Devashish dwelling into a depressing emotion especially when it is a month of sunshine and rain. Or even better you may not even have any of those thoughts, or you may be just curious as to how I will explain such a depressing emotion and still make it inspiring for you all to read it. This blog post is connected to anger or any other emotional post I may make in the future.

Sadness is a very complicated emotion just like anger and etc. But we all know too well what causes sadness maybe it is a response to a situation, circumstances, emotional response to something we saw or miss someone near to us. This emotion will be the bi-product emotion in response to many emotional blogs I will be posting in the future, which you will notice by the way. So let’s get back to what sadness is! This is how I define sadness and that is sad is an emotion that is flexible to work with all the emotions within our mind, as it is easily expressible through happiness, anger, fear, sadness or even a heartfelt connection to a person or a fictional character in a movie or in a book. In our society sadness is thought to be a negative and a gender-oriented emotion, for example, women are emotional so they are able to cry whenever, whereas men cannot cry because they are supposed to be strong, hardy, and can be seen as a crybaby if they do cry. Just because society has deemed that emotion to be irrelevant to men that do not mean they cannot cry. On the Contrary, I believe that people should be free to express their emotional state freely, however, some of you may disagree, but that is fine. I find that society’s viewpoint on men unable to express their emotional state to be ill logical or irrational thought or norm. Sadness is an emotion that helps us maintain our humanity, helps us reflect on our mistakes and challenges that we have overcome so far, and always forces us to look forward. In many cases from a personal experience of sadness has helped me develop my soft skill of empathy, therefore I am able to channel people’s worries and their crisis that they come to me with to discuss.

How you may ask has sadness made me an empathetic human being? Well when watching movies not sad preferably, I tend to be sucked into the character’s world or feel the emotions they feel within the movie or within a scene of that movie; or even in an anime (Japanese cartoons), I watch. This one particular anime called Violet Evergarden has always never ceased my teary eyes due to the scenes that the protagonist and the clients play. Violet Evergarden is about a woman who writes letters for people all around the world that means she travels a lot for her clients to write them their letter and see it delivered to the rightful person. The main part of the anime is when she meets her clients who she is hired to write a letter to. The anime’s storyline is so well done and every micro emotion and non-verbal and verbal dialogues you can relate to the client’s difficulties and main character’s willpower to write the letter, which does not concern them no matter how sad or emotional, the letter is because it is to make the teller strong to leave a mark so they can pass on. And the fact after when you find out what the letter was about you cannot help, but cry for the recipient of the letter. For me or anyone that can somewhat understand humans and their desire to leave a legacy or a positive note before they pass on or to let the recipient know that they are ok. I feel that the main character learns a lot from these faithful encounters with her clients, even though the clients are the one that asks for Violet Evergarden to write the letters for them. It is a beautiful anime regardless of whether you like anime or not, but for sure I recommend watching it to see the relation of sadness and how the client and the main character face’s it through strength, courage, and positive wishes for their recipients. I made a point that at least once a year or a month I will watch or hear the sad music because it makes one relate to the artist that makes the music and also keeps you empathetic and grateful of living in the present.

I recommend watching heartfelt movies or whatever that makes you feel grateful and grounded. Use sadness as that emotion to help you elevate in areas where no emotion can go, but only sadness. You will feel enlightened to the experiences that you acquire and you will come to understand yourself that much more. Do not label it to be a hindering emotion, but instead as an emotion to make other emotions stronger and also your spirit that becomes much stronger as you progress through life, you will also attain strength that you never knew that you had. In fact, all emotions are there to help you out whether they may be good or bad, they are going to be present in your mind. In many cases, sadness has given me the ability to heal or refreshed or rejuvenation and reflect on how far I have come and yet can go. It also makes me grateful for coming across challenges and hurdles that have made me stronger and matured me a bit.  To explain further as to how sadness is an important emotion I will give an example that you may be able to relate to better. I saw a video on Facebook where it showed people crying while watching a movie. While, I was watching the video it said that people that cry when watching any movies whether it may be sad or not has the ability to make a meaningful relations to the fictional character’s journey or anyone’s journey in real life in whatever capacity they may be going through one could relate because it shows how much developed you are as a person. The video said that the people that cry not just when watching a movie, but in anything that is worth crying about should be taken care of because those people are very important in this world because they can relate to people’s challenge and hardships faster in a more developed empathetic way. I also recommend watching that video, which is on Facebook on my timeline or saved under my profile.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.

——Alyssa Milano

So, now that you have read about how sadness can be a reflective and a strengthening emotion; do you still think sadness is a depressive emotion or do you think that all emotions have the ability to make you strong mentally, physically, and spiritually in some capacity? I leave that interpretation up to you. Because I know for sure that sadness has made me more reflective and to realize that I have the power to move forward with sadness on my back constantly backing my state of mind up, I know that I have nothing to feel worried about. It also has made me humble, grounded, and grateful for the life I am living in this very moment. So my question at the beginning of the blog about what is sadness to you, because until you don’t find the answer for yourself you will never allow sadness to help you push yourself further and for you to keep growing in your life and learning. Even though other emotions are there to help you in that endeavour, but you will always feel that some part of you is always missing.