Saturday, December 27, 2008

On psychology, life and love...

In psychodynamics, awareness of reason awakens insight in a person which helps him or her resolve his or her inner conflicts by making it possible to lead themselves towards psychological healing. Like a mechanic, a person must dissemble and categorize their thoughts to be able to find out what is wrong in them and also to be able to repair his or her broken parts. One of life's laws is that humans disintegrate as they grow. To be able to discern solutions and repair oneself, a person must visit his or her psychological history and study how he or she has disintegrated through the years. Through that they will be able to restore psychological health and live fully.

Amongst all the perceptions offered to us by Sigmund Freud, there is one basic principle psychodynamic proclaims: a person heals himself.

In our reality, life and death exists side by side. There will be no life without death and no death without life. This paradox is what i believe balances existence. We know that we exist because we can define non-existence. We destroy ourselves in order to create a better self. We experience pain to be able to feel more happiness. We break our own hearts to be able to make it stronger. We get old to be able to appreciate youth. We fear to find courage. And we die to realize that we have lived.

If this perception of a paradoxical world is considered then I can finally prove that this perception causes our human tragic flaw: Love.

Love gives us hope even in the most unfortunate moments. Love keeps our faith because it never fails to believe no matter how tired our souls are. Love finds happiness in a world of pain. Love inflicts hurt to experience happiness. Love gives life and could also let it go.

And like life, love keeps on going. However, love is so paradoxical that its only opposite is indifference. Love sparks in the midst of indifference because we are all bound to feel. Therefore, like life and death, there is no escaping love. For it is our purpose to feel so we can define existence and upon defining existence, we live and in death we realize how much we lived through how many people we loved.

It is love that heals a person and it can also destroy one. However, it has the power to give life in death so it can create a better person. Just like the basic principle i learned from psychodynamics and Freud.

In the end, we all start with a beginning. Everything is a paradox. That's what makes this reality true and real. This circle of truths is connected by a purpose. An unavoidable purpose that we all live for. And that is love.

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