There are these times when you feel unnecessarily weighed down by everything around you. Sometimes it might be work, sometimes relationships, or sometimes (more times than some times actually) an expanding belly.
And in all honesty, it’s not a very nice feeling. I mean, a part of you knows it’s really not necessary, and that you are perfectly capable of getting rid of it, but you don’t (you know, if you go to analyze this previous statement, you’ll notice, dear reader, that ‘a part’ of you will always want that thing which you’re not really getting. I don’t know why, but ‘most’ of you will never want it, and the ‘other part’ is always victorious. Maybe because ‘a part’ is symbolic of an unsuccessful minority, or maybe because if ‘most’ of you had wanted it, you would probably have got it by now, or maybe just that the grass is greener on the other side. But I am digressing.)
So yes, coming back to the matter at hand, my idol and mentor Professor Hushval Shatska identified the process of accumulating this unnecessary weight:
1. One enjoys a particular stimulant (an activity, a person, or a delicacy, depending on one’s concern).
2. One carries on enjoying it, responding to that stimulus in a proportion that is 3.14 times (or greater than such) one’s normal response to a routine stimulus.
3. Eventually, there is a negative feedback reaction, wherein the response function is reversed in polarity, and the original stimulus now becomes a response to an overblown sense of enjoyment, which was originally a response.
4. Once this response-stimulus polarity is reversed, it leads to a reduction in the value addition that was previously an essential feature of the exchange, and becomes a cause for the creation of dead weight.
Shatska’s observations have dramatically simplified the problem that people face when they wonder what it was the actually led to the weighed feelings even though they think they did everything right. According to the professor, the essence of the matter is simple- enjoyment is not a problem creator, lack of moderation is. Thus, the addition of extreme weight in one’s life is merely an expression of that very lack of moderation.
And the unwillingness of an individual to change is a further addendum to that problem. This feature of one’s character is the reason that a part of one knows that the weight is unnecessary, but one is still unable to anything, simply because one is too comfortable existing in the enjoyment of the stimulus, and is unsure of whether he will benefit by changing.
You carry on working, you continue to put up with frustrating people, and you just eat away. Sometimes, the toughest thing in life becomes a decision about taking a break, or about standing up and being truthful with another person, and about actually hitting a gym (the third is generally considered tougher than the others).
But that decision is for the good.
