The Anesthetics of Life – Part 1

“I started to look around and see a lot of people who were unhappy. They were anesthetizing themselves with gossip or alcohol or psychoparmaceuticals or affair”. Atoosa Rubenstein, controversial former editor in chief of Seventeen magazine and founder of CosmoGirl, on why she decided to get out of the magazine industry. (Time Magazine, dec 10, 2007). my question to her, where would she go next?

Regardless where she would go or what she would do, Yet, might be that is life all about; to go on and pick up your anesthetics along the road.

The Theory:
Anything you find in life might be just another anesthetics. Or We could say these anesthetics in other words: something we love/like (or in some persons case, something we hate/dislike?) both in the form of material and immaterial. Going from here, we could say; anything we love is anesthetics.

Statement: We all are unhappy, and everybody try to anesthetizes themselves to be able to feel happiness for a while and go on (to find another anesthetics of life).

Proof: Is that true that we are all unhappy without anesthetization? let’s try to imagine if we let go all of our current anesthetics, for example: good work, money, family, religions, lovers. let all go, can you free yourself from anything you love and consciously able to be happy?

If you can, then you are certified to be free from anesthetization.

I believe everyone of us can be free, it just a matter of time. But then again, do we need to be free from anesthetization? do we need to be free from the things we love?

Maybe we just need to be sure the way we anesthetizes our self or the way we search for anesthetics are not hurting other beings or ourselves along the road, maybe we just need to stays on the ‘good anesthetics’.

arising question: How we know we are not hurting other beings or ourselves when we are flying high in anesthetization? Even more questions; do you think we could judge something is good or bad, when we addicted to it?

Things are not Broken, It Just Degrades

Of many things around us, we might see that those things sometimes are just collapse, and we feel that we can do nothing about it. Yet, most of the time we are mistaken. Almost all things show the signs of degradation over time. Degradation can accumulates and in some case grows exponentially. If we ignore or just don’t catch it signs, we will eventually find it failure to meet our expectation, perhaps just when we need it.

The above, not only true for things or equipments; it also true for human relationship. How many times you find that your relationship ends up badly? It might not be that bad if we pay attention, catch up some signs and do ‘maintenance’ to our relationship. We need to have some maintenance program for our system and equipment, and more important to have a maintenance program for those who dear to us.

If you find yourself left something too long, you might find it gone, broken, rust, and in some case already in someone else’s care.

Anyway, sometimes, the main maintenance needed for human whom dear to us, is to listen to her/him.

And Motivation for All

We have it all the time, but sometime we don’t recognize its existences. It is the will to survive, that go forward, and fight with us. The will to survive started with your motives. Why should you survive? it could be because of your family, your kid, your future, you honor, your debt, whatever.

Sometime it is what we need in the pessimistic environment, most of the time, it is what makes a pessimist go forward and fight.

There also something called motivation killer and it could ruin your spirit, so remember why you must be a survivor, then be motivated.