Reality and its lack of acceptance.
The Catalonia-Spain conflict from the point of view of Happiness. Or how to be happy despite the political circumstances in which we live.
Because I am convinced that the strategies that help us to be happier can be applied to the different avatars that life present to us, today I will start the first of eight articles that will try to give a different view of this topic, without going into the political issue that originated it, using the different tools that we can use to be happier, in order to maintain happiness in the midst of so much uneasiness.
8 strategies that I will comment on 8 different articles:
- Reality and its lack of acceptance
- Nothing is under our control
- Binary thinking: with me or against me
- Better being well than want to be right
- To desire or not to desire a nation, that is the question
- The pleasure of a nation or absence of suffering a conflict: you choose
- Life is not fair. Why only one politician has made a good choice?
- Why 40% is a political issue and 60% is a problem of poor communication
I think it is important to analyze them well and put them in context because of a correct interpretation of reality will be derived how we face and live this conflict and our happiness will depend on it.
I start today explaining the first section:
- Reality and its lack of acceptance
«I will try to create a community of men and women who ignore geographical boundaries. I will just have country and that country will include the entire human race. R. Tagore
If you ask me what surprises me the most these days, I would say, without any doubt, the apparent lack of acceptance of reality.
I agree with Plato’s dualism when he explains that there is an intelligible world of ideas and, a sensible, physical world, captured by the senses. And I disagree with him that the real reality is placed in the world of ideas.
For me, concepts like country, flag and border, do not exist in reality, they are mere ideas created by humanity. They have practical and real consequences, I will not deny it, but they do not really exist. If we fly over the Pyrenees we will not see a red line drawn along the mountain range that marks us a real division of our neighboring country.
Therefore, if there aren’t really borders… why such a mess? If borders are scars of history because their establishment arises, most of the times, as a consequence of a conflict and/or a war, will it be worthwhile to establish a new one?
Another point to evaluate is that one thing has been the idea of an independent country as an Ithaca, and the other, the reality of the loss of good coexistence between family and friends who think differently, and the tension that exists today in the street between citizens of different ideology. They are the same human beings as 10 years ago, but the ideas have led them to polarization and confrontation.
And finally, the real loss of economic status that will make this idea lose followers and those who will suffer its consequences are people who really do not live or want this problem but, as in most political conflicts, they are the poorest and disadvantaged in the working market. Intellectual ideas that, without wanting it, entail the real impoverishment of those who can not afford the luxury of wanting a better country.
Reality is very stubborn and we should stop interpreting it, putting filters on it and starting to assume that things do not always go as you wanted and, that a quick acceptance of what it is really happening could help to establish quick remedy measures and limit the damage.
#BetalltoBlack entry 1 of 8
