An Analytical Approach To The State Of The Human Psyche As Observed And Described By Yours Truly, Me.
I wrote this paper over the course of a week or two. The first part is a paper I wrote at an instance when I was illustrating an emotional way that I felt, the second part I try my best to analyze why it is that I felt that way with an unbiased eye.
I can make you weep; cause you to ball your eyes out for hours. But I can also make you happier than you’ve ever been; cause you to be ecstatic if you get to know me. But I say that not many know me, and not one knows my path. Not one knows the hours I’ve spent searching the night sky for answers through wet eyes, for answers I’ll not ever receive before the questions themselves fade away from my dimming mind. For those of you who do know me though I apologize, I am not an easy person to know, for my acquaintance comes hand and hand with a burden, and to know me is to share a portion of that burden. This is my world witnessed through a glistening fall of tears…but my eyes see clearer when they are wet.
All of these things and feelings only cause me, the sole owner, observer and experiencer of these emotions to question their very meaning and or even worth. How is it that earlier today I was feeling so incredible and great about life, but now I am filled with pain and feelings that tear at my very depths which cause me to struggle with everyday living? If this thing that is me can be “cured” with a pill, then what are these words worth at all? If I were cured then perhaps I would never write such words as these, so that only causes me to question the very purpose in my emotions, are they purposeless, and everything I feel means nothing? Or are these words, which are driven by my emotions’ only purpose to be evaluated and to be critiqued in order to study the psychological reasoning’s of an unwell mind, and the passions and original intents of my ideas don’t mean a thing?
If that is true then how can we ever be inspired by people’s words that have throughout history been utterly much more passion filled, emotional and obsessive then mine? Can anyone be inspired by my words even though they are only written in the first place because of how unbalanced-ingly emotional they are? If so then how can they justify curing me? Do I write of things of great psychological interest? Or do I write of things that are purposeless? If everyone who ever had a psychological, emotional, or obsessive issue were cured in their problem then we would have far less great works in general, but alas I suppose we also would have far less great tragedies as well.
I know that I am not well. In my prayers I ask God what on earth is wrong with me? My words are cast into the infinite void of words of the world, but mine are as words of a ghost, shinning forth from the heart of a specter who wanders the halls in search of something he’ll never find. An opinion from my systematical approach and personal interest outside of the way I feel is that maybe these specters whom as I often times feel as one, search in vain are only damned because they search for the wrong things which ultimately can never come to them. But how can one ever part with an idea that has ultimately caused one to be the very person one has become? It is like an eternal enigma that cannot be solved or fixed, and the only thing one can do about it is to become themselves a mystery that cannot be solved.
Let us delve for a moment into the human psyche. I have been told to “just let it go” quite often in my life concerning great matters, and also of matters of little eternal significance, but I say that I am not usually trying to grind a topic into the ground, it’s just that when everyone else has come to their own conclusions on a matter I am still desiring to see all of the rest of the aspects of the matter that have not even gotten close to being covered with the brief surface discussion. I am not trying to be over analytical but it’s just others move on with the topic so fast and before I’ve even started to think about it.
Also, “just let it go” this is interesting to me because how can one let go of who they are? When a person is brought to the edge of darkness, the boundary of death itself and one realizes the infinite depths of the soul and starts to understand and see the never ceasing scales of heaven and hell, one yearns, and prays and begs for something to show them some sort of light or truth, because at that point there is, out of all the frivolous and trivial things within this life that continually surround our bodies, nothing else other than darkness on one side and truth on the other, and one realizes that these two things are the only things of any eternal concern or significance. What happens when one reaches this point in the depths of the mind though? I say that whether it be a mad hallucination of the desperate mind, or an actual divine vision given from God’s very angels one sees something, and that something is often times without a doubt remarkable. And regardless of from where it came, this thing that is seen inevitably, irrevocably, eternally and completely becomes the very mind, body and soul of the person. And this thing alone will do one of two things I am truly learning: it will either drive one mad, or it will send one through the very gates of Heaven, and the bearer of it is the only one who can choose which direction to go and no one else. I say that the bearer of it can choose, not signifying that we do not all have our choices, but what I mean is that the bearer has the power given him to choose madness regardless of any others intentions to “cure” him, or the bearer will choose to save himself despite others intentions or even un-intentions to damn him. The bearer has the power of his own mortal life within his hands and eternal as well. Nonetheless, the choice is very difficult either way to accomplish, just in different forms of the meaning of difficult.
Regardless of this thing, whatever it might have been, it will, even in the life after be a part of him because of the depths of which it was conceived originally, the depths which transcend this life. One major question I have is, to what end does this thing become when this thing symbolizes a thing that has already eternally become something else. Though continuing time fades the image from daily remembrances, it will surely pass through the conscience even a hundred years later when one is on his deathbed. The impact of it will not and cannot ever mean anything less then what it meant the very first time it was given even though the times of which it is remembered become further and further apart. Maybe its significance regardless of what the visual interpretation of it was, simply becomes a staple of the meaning of unfaltering truth in times of inescapable despair.
I usually write papers such as these in one given time frame in one sitting, but I have written this paper over the course of a few weeks. I did so to try to catch more of an understanding of this emotional and psychological roller coaster I ride through time. One given instance does not pass through the barrier of the walls of changing feeling or emotion. I try, as I have always naturally desired to try to gain an understanding of what it is that is true regardless of external experiences and despite the ways I feel about things in any given situation. I inescapably, as we all are, am influenced to one degree or another by the way that I feel in the things that I do, say, and write. I try to evaluate my own stance with my thoughts and words from an outside perspective from myself. I do my best to separate my own personal thoughts of what I believe others projections toward me are, and the straight analytical perspective of how I am perceived with the things that I do and say. The difference between the two: one is my bias of what I think other persons thinks of me which alters my own way of acting to try and compensate for something I only have a hunch about the way I am perceived. For example, I might have this idea that someone might think I am a loser because I struggle in school which makes me feel like a loser so I inevitably change the way that I act around that person for better or for most of the time worse, because I am overcompensating for my original thought about how that person perceives me whether it be true or not. My analytical study of myself in regards to how I am perceived is quite different though. This is my systematical breakdown of my own emotional state at any given time and the way it affects those around me… to be continued…
Excerpt from part 2:
One thing I know above all other things that I profess to know at this time about myself and others is that it is not time that heals a broken body, heart, mind or soul, it is the Atonement of Christ that heals, and only upon the ripples of time does it fulfill its purpose. Time however is the thing along with the divine principle of eternal growth and understanding which causes us to learn from our previous ideas of what we thought were true. I believe the things I say are true in any given instance that I say or write them, but time, time and time again has proven to illustrate that not everything that we think we know to be correct at any given moment will continue to be, at least within our own moral and psychological conscience be correct at any given future date, and it is the peculiarity of a true intelligent being to see their own misconstrued previous ideas and grow and move on from them when it becomes apparent that they are no longer correct regardless of emotional attachment to even the smallest of ideas. I say “peculiarity” over words such as characteristic, trait, or quality, because the word “peculiar” does not connote to me a negative aura to its meaning, and it also implies a rarity within a trait, wherein traits themselves everyone possess. Peculiarity is a thing that is often times regarded as “off” or unwelcome to the world, however is itself the very trait needed to not only understand our previous discrepancies in truth but to also apply that knowledge in our lives to continue to refine and tune our ever increasing knowledge and actions upon our knowledge of this thing I call Eternal, Unchanging, Divine Truth.