The Good in Hurting

Newspapers are great source of reading material aren't they? I love it most when they have some articles that i can really relate to.. haha like today's The Star (StarMag)

The title of the article is 'The Good in Hurting' and it is written by A. Asohan..

in his article, he gave a few prominent names (which i have never heard of.. XD) and relate how their failure and hurts builds their lives.. to quote the article

"It is through pain that we define ourselves, it is through hardship that we rise higher"

I agree with that statement, but another statement struck me more.. and it got me thinking because i never realised it until like... i read it.. Homer(from the Simpsons) must have been 'D'oh-ing me for not realizing that.. but lets see whether or not u realise it ok.. hehe..

the fact is

"We do less thinking when we are happy. Joy is experiential, sorrow is cognition."

now wait a minute.. sorrow?? that is cognition?? u realise that?? only after reading that and starting to think, yeah.. it does make sense.. we always think about the bad things and "why me" when things go wrong.. but when things go right, we are just happy and rarely we will think "why me? why am i happy?" so true ya..

to continue the article:

"We feel more when we're happy, we think more when depressed. When we are happy, we don't think about it. But there's a powerful need in us want to explain our pain, to dwell on it, to examine it meticulously. We are more creative in expressing our sorrows than we are in expressing our joys."

that got me thinking of another question.. why so? why do humans only think when in their sad times and not think when in their good times? is it because hurts are associated with failure and thus we tend to look at why we fail rather than why we succeed? hmm.. i don't have an answer to that.. maybe i will take this question to Dr. Goh.. mwehehe..

oh and by the way, i haven't watch The Simpsons yet

God Bless~