2025-02-05 10:22
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Actor Stephen Fry on getting through the bad days: “I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather. Here are some obvious things about the weather: It’s real. You can’t change it by wishing it away. If it’s dark and rainy it really is dark and rainy and you can’t alter it. It might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row. But. It will be sunny one day. In the same way that one has to accept the weather, so one has to accept how one feels about life sometimes. “Today’s a crap day,” is a perfectly realistic approach. It’s all about finding a kind of mental umbrella. “Hey-ho, it’s raining inside: it isn’t my fault and there’s nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.”
This isn’t to say moods are unjustifiable. But I know those overly-sober and “below baseline” feeling days happen commonly without reason.. and that’s okay
I don’t have to pay attention to all of my thoughts on these days, hell it would benefit me not to chase them on these days particularly. My philosophy has been built upon openness to experience, this is great for unfocused, full exploration of human experience.. but for my path there are times when I need focus. When doubts need to be dismissed as unreal, just my brain doing it’s thing.
To believe you are your emotions is to be as fickle as the weather.