Originally Posted By: flintrock Originally Posted By: Infidel 762I was feeling under the wire and a little depressed when I remembered...
I remember hearing in the opening readings of an NA meeting; “...the sooner we face our problems within our society and everyday living, just that much faster do we become productive members of that society”. I have often thought about what that meant and why being a member of society feels limited. In that society belongs to nature, but nature does not belong to society. You see nature can exist without society, but society cannot exist without nature. Instinct is the driving force in nature but often gets neutralized by other tendencies in society. Neutralized instincts can be interpreted as depression.
Instinct is not always rational or logical. Primal emotions are not always rational or logical. They’re in a completely separate part of your brain that you have no control over. What you have control over is logic and reason. You can’t use logic and reason to cure depression, but you can use it to understand that it is separate in your brain and not who you actually are. It’s instinctual. You can’t control instinct. Pick it up and own it so you can let it go. Want to really step forward in recovery? Meditate in the nonexistence of self, and how all those emotions you identify with aren’t even real, they’re just something your subconscious brain made up to make sense of what’s going on around it.
Out here, just as in society predators are everywhere. And even those who don’t need protection from outside forces often need protection from themselves...
It’s good to hear from y’all it’s been a while
Ya still got it Man! Not only a killer, but the ability to foster thought in this rusty old brain.
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I always enjoyed your stories and photos of the hunts but more so the thoughts and reflections you manage to provoke in telling them.