To be or not to be? (I seriously need a cat)

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Lasse Hallstrom.

 

Side Note:(Lasse Hallstrom: born 2 June 1946 is a Swedish Film Director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best for My Life As a Dog (1985) and later for The Cider House Rules (1999) ).

 

Sentimental

adj

1.

tending to indulge the emotions excessively

2.

making a direct appeal to the emotions, esp to romantic feelings

3.

relating to or characterized by sentiment

 

Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but current usage defines it as an appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason.

 

The simplest example of being sentimental is keeping hold of old postcards, birthday cards, dolls, or even gift-wrappings because they hold a special meaning to you. There’s nothing wrong with being sentimental, a lot of people believe that items remind them of past memories, but the thing is, you wouldn’t want emotion to cloud your judgment.

 People who are sentimental find it very hard to control their emotions, thus letting their feelings get the best of them. They find it hard to focus when overwhelmed with a situation, because they spend their time biting their nails in wonder.

 One’s true occupation should rest on the motives and reasons for being concerned, not on the objects to which concern is directed. We as people should be well informed about the state of our concern, and for it to be appropriate. That is because the problem with sentimentality is that this somewhat harmless pursuit can make people unable to deal with the real world and distorts expectations their expectations of what’s around them.

So then, we mustn’t distort reality for the sake of indulging to our softer feelings. On the other hand, we also have cases where we distort reality to indulge in harsher feelings. Indulging in feelings is the same whether it is to the soft and weary or to the ruthless and tough. The self-deception and distortion of one’s surroundings is present in both cases. Many people might say that portraying to harsher feelings isn’t sentimental but plain dishonest. But that is not the point of argument I’m trying to make. The point I’m trying to highlight is how people tend to become weak when confronted with their emotions, them being soft or harsh. It’s kind of how boys become when they see Kim Kardashian or Shakira. Geez. 

To sum up this philosophy lesson, to put the butter on the toast, or as we say “el zebda”, False sentimentality causes misconceptions and misinformation, which highly affects your skills of judgment. Accordingly, we must not let our emotions distort our reality.

And this, ladies and gentlemen and fellow aliens, is what I like to call “falsafa malha lazma”.  

I should get a cat and talk to it more often.

 Ciao,

Shamma.

 

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