Is this what personal development has become? Removing all emotions of fear, sadness, and grief?
While those emotions are inherently negative by definition, I feel that everyone has different interpretations of those emotions. What grief may feel for one person may feel differently for another person. Similarly, each person's reaction to a particular emotion may be empowering or dis-empowering.
Now I respect Steve's perspectives and outlook on life as I find it fascinating and it has gotten him good results. Yet, I just find it hard to "look past" this event and categorize it as just another batch of human deaths.
Perhaps I feel more concerned because I am a college student and Asian as well, but I feel it is natural for people to be more deeply affected by incidents that happen closer to home. I find it silly to think that if you feel grief for the lost of a loved one, then you must feel grief for ALL deaths in order to be "logical" or "fair."
I am well aware of the chaos that is in Iraq and if I was there right now, no doubt I would be highly emotional about the deaths reported there. But how does it make me a worse or "unfair" person if I could go about my daily activities without thinking about the horrible things that happen there 24/7?
Now I understand subjective reality you are the only consciousness in this Earth. If that is so, who says everyone must search for only joy and happiness? My joy is facing challenges that I feel averse to and give me a deep negative feeling because I know the negative feeling is a sign that I am tackling something most people would avoid.
I feel Steve's perspective is questionable not in the sense that he does not view this event as tragic, but rather he seems adamant about erasing any emotions of grief, sadness, or other "negative emotions" from his consciousness.  |