I might have mentioned this before but my wife was recently talking with an old friend and they started discussing how much of what their old friends post on social media is actually real. My wife was incredulous. She said why would I post something if it wasn't true. Her friend on the other hand, not so much...

> Emotions are not meant to guide us in my opinion, they are designed to grab our attention, and spend it more wisely.

I feel when logic fails then emotions keep us grounded. 99 percent you have to follow the logic but there are circumstances where using logic backfires and you can't ground yourself. That's when the emotions come in. For example while dealing with kids you use logic, kids would hate you growing up. So balancing that is another thing too.

Just chill and work what you want and which satisfy you keep going 

The perception of reality is tricky, and you can always switch to a different perception if you know how. I usually need to do it in the opposite way, to breathe rapidly and change my mindset in order to push myself, as I am quite chill by my nature.

Well that was  a lot to digest in a few words. You are right tho, too many are just numbingly thru life but it feels good at the moment so why look passed it. People are happier with a comfortable lie than the inconvenient truth. going round and round over again like groundhog day and nothing seems to change. The brains being just as AI as the content consumed. Reminds me of the south Park episode of when they were overtaken by add and couldn't figure out was  an AI add diguised as content or made by a real person.

Even when you feel like a fish swimming up stream, keep swimming, you are part of the solution. Feeling, observing choosing to to something about it for yourself.

Feelings and emotions can be good and bad, depending on how one uses it. Letting fear cloud one's judgement can be detrimental to progress. But fear can also save one's life. When some things or contraptions look dangerous, sometimes listening to fear is a good thing. In sports, a lot of successful athletes use anger and feeling of being slighted/losing as fuel to train and get better. Like a lot of things, it is how you use it that matters.

>If life is all about feelings, and a good life is one where we feel good, we can create a good life artificially with drugs, or perhaps some kind of electrical brain stimulation. We needn't move, we needn't act. All we need do, is feel.

Listening to feeling at some point can be risky and hurtful. Just my opinion though 

There are so many experiences I’ve had and I learnt as a kid but I imbibed them and it does not mean those experiences are good for us…
Unfortunately, some of us tend to teach our kids based on those experiences 

Yeh I only kind of got that might be an emergency button because it was red, I think I'm too dumb to understand icons XD

Maybe the majority will though I "feel" (in the skin prickly energy sensation way that I feel not in the stunted emotional way that I feel) that there's enough of a shift that the majority you're foreseeing will if they remain a majority will only be a very slight majority.

And with you having said that the other thing I'm wondering is if some of the people who act in that manner are doubling down/sunk cost and don't want to "wake up" for egotistical reasons ("waking up" would mean they were wrong about a lot of things and being wrong is something to be absolutely avoided at any and all cost no matter what).

In my opinion, a minimum amount of stress and anxiety are the main components of a good life. It’s good when a person doesn’t owe anyone anything and has sufficient passive income.

But we would face the reality sooner or later, thus wouldn't those feelings go away somehow? 🙄

Hi. Once we slow down our breathing, rapid thoughts, the manner in which we are eating even, we can start feeling...the air, ourselves, others....thank for reminding me of this!