Emotionally stable - Good or bad?

[NightCrawler]

I envy those on roller coasters.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life is a continuous routine of non-necessities, and cheap thrills? Odds are, you've experienced this at one point or another. I feel like this quite often, and in some regards it's something to revel in - a life of stability, with few complications and even fewer downers.
But what of the other life lived by few? You know, the borderline bi-polar, eccentric individuals so caught up with their emotions that they experience both sides of the spectrum, I.E. - the extremely happy, and extremely sad.

Certainly you're not one to agree once you see the bouts of depression, but it's hard to forget the sky-high joy you've witnessed as well.

So what I'm asking you is: If you had the choice to be an emotionally stable human being, experiencing neither great highs or lows, would you want to be? Or would you prefer taking the ultimate good with some of the deeply bad?

[PBass]

I'd rather be just happy all the time. Even if I had no reason.

[Goldfire64]

At 10/27/09 12:24 AM, PBass wrote: I'd rather be just happy all the time. Even if I had no reason.

i don't know. I see retarded kids who are happy all the time. and i sure as hell don't want to be like them.

[PBass]

At 10/27/09 12:26 AM, Goldfire64 wrote:

At 10/27/09 12:24 AM, PBass wrote: I'd rather be just happy all the time. Even if I had no reason.

i don't know. I see retarded kids who are happy all the time. and i sure as hell don't want to be like them.

I wouldn't mind because I would be enjoying every second of it. If I go senile and crazy someday I want it to be happy crazy. Not angry crazy, and especially not paranoid crazy.

[Gobblemeister]

At 10/27/09 12:26 AM, Goldfire64 wrote:

At 10/27/09 12:24 AM, PBass wrote: I'd rather be just happy all the time. Even if I had no reason.

i don't know. I see retarded kids who are happy all the time. and i sure as hell don't want to be like them.

Self awareness was a curse brought on mankind by Adam and Eve's indiscretion

That is why we feel the need to cover our naked bodies even in blistering heat

To be free of such worries would be a blessing, regardless of if you are retarted or not. Retards are not self pitying and pathetic. They have more security in themselves than anyone, and I envy that.

[Mr-Destruction]

Nope not at all, I'd rather have the ups and downs. If it were perfect, I'd feel like I have nothing to live for.

[Markface]

At 10/27/09 12:19 AM, NightCrawler wrote: So what I'm asking you is: If you had the choice to be an emotionally stable human being, experiencing neither great highs or lows, would you want to be? Or would you prefer taking the ultimate good with some of the deeply bad?

And yet a life of random highs and lows would be just as pointless and meaningless.

Look, if you had the option of being absolutely contempt with living of just bread and water as opposed to fine caviar and aged wine, which would you chose?

The obvious answer is to be completely happy with bread and water, because that's all it boils down to, happiness. It's better to be contempt with something that doesn't require a lot of effort, such as acquiring the fine caviar or aged wine. Much like it would be better to be completely contempt with no disorders, rather than feel the exact same way with such.

[6r0undZ3r0]

Having a dull, emotionally stable life seems too....boring. I think I would take some highs and some lows, because that's how life is.

[Gobblemeister]

The obvious answer is to be completely happy with bread and water, because that's all it boils down to, happiness. It's better to be contempt with something that doesn't require a lot of effort, such as acquiring the fine caviar or aged wine. Much like it would be better to be completely contempt with no disorders, rather than feel the exact same way with such.

I figure your making a good point however the word contempt means the opposite of the word i think you mean to use which is content

[STEM]

I always figured that emotional stability was a goal. I had highs and lows in my high school years, which contributed to the molding of my maturity. I use maturity in the sense that I can look at a situation rationally now without freaking out. When it comes to offensive jokes and the like, I'm still an immature bugger

[yurgenburgen]

Emotionally stable, for definite. The risks associated with mood swings and extreme depression are too much.

[Infuritaion]

I want to be exactly how I am. I am very happy. I live a healthy life, am very emotionally stable, and am an extreme optimist.

Life is wonderful. I have God, family, and smart people from the past telling me not to indulge in "cheap thrills", but higher pleasures. I suggest the same for everyone in the world.

[Drake]

If anyone on NG thinks I am emotionally stable you are wrong. So so very wrong... I am unstable. Very unstable, even. I do however enjoy a few good laughs.

Swe-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-et emo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oti-o-o-on

[DragonFyre9]

I am bi-polar, it can make me happy for weeks. Then I can go into a deep depression for possibly months. Whether I'm manic or depressed it really fucks with my life sometimes. When I'm at a low point I'm unmotivated and do the bare minimum in school. I will admit though I'm a cool guy to be with at parties since I go fucking manic and just do all sorts of crazy shit. I do sometimes find fun within my disorder.

[EggSnake]

Americans usually define a mental disorder as a disease if it renders a person unable to work, ie disability and WC, because we are raised by hippies who think it is so important to leave mom and pops when you're like, 17, 18 but they also are so overbearing and bulllheaded that they refuse to let you live your own life (because they fucked theirs up with the same nonsense that will undoubtedly crush us all if we let them continue) that they force you to get a job so when they question your sexuality (they do this with everyone don't ask why) and feel threatened and ask you to hurry up and make a brash decision so they can continue being childish with the others and KICK YOU OUT ON THE STREET SO YOU CAN BE LIKE THEM at least you still have money. So emotional stability isn't really more than a neurosis urged on by the unleashed insecurities of others, usually started by repressed greed as a child that forms into bossiness and overscrutiny, all echoing from a random reaction to feelings of threat from another living being that has never been conscienced and functionalized. Hence, to be emotionally stable is to be predeterminately stable to those of scrutiny, or to be instable is to randomly list predetermined insecurities of others and apply them to yourself.
Humans have a scavenger mindset, and death is a taboo of behavior, and humans do not properly associate needs with abilities at a social level. We undoubtedly seek out the needle in the haystack, but once found must resist the urge to return it to the haystack for another. Competitive teeth are grinding for tedium, to expose conscious ego to the notion of loss, unable to accept loss as a minor tedium itself, and all from greed from others. Gold? Gold makes decent rings, it is more rare than silver, one would kill (rot) for it, and justify it as on some ground as acceptable as it involves another living being. but in the end, one feels like they need a gold ring to be one of the others, as though they fell they owe it if it is had, or some shy away in anger from the threat of demand.
Emotion is to give or refuse, never to take. emotional reception is merely continuation of the same wave, unobstructed. To be Unstable in this way is to overemote, so as to attempt to recieve, or to refuse violently, so as to free from burden.

It is bad. very bad. Duh.

[Luke]

I'm somewhat content with how I am if I think about it, we all have ups and downs, if it were simply just one mood all the time, right in the middle. I'd be bored with life, we all need to cry some times, we all need to be angry at other times, and we all need to be happy.

[NightCrawler]

At 10/27/09 01:22 AM, DragonFyre9 wrote: I am bi-polar, it can make me happy for weeks. Then I can go into a deep depression for possibly months. Whether I'm manic or depressed it really fucks with my life sometimes. When I'm at a low point I'm unmotivated and do the bare minimum in school. I will admit though I'm a cool guy to be with at parties since I go fucking manic and just do all sorts of crazy shit. I do sometimes find fun within my disorder.

This interests me.
Have you taken medication (pardon my ignorance - is there medication you can take?) for your illness? If you have, how did it make you feel? If you haven't, why not?

[formulario]

yeah my life is a random secuence of chaos and cheap emotions i got depressed by thats and thats pushed into drugs alcohol and stuff and i think thats makes me evil i guess

[Tribal]

At 10/27/09 12:19 AM, NightCrawler wrote:

I envy those on roller coasters.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life is a continuous routine of non-necessities, and cheap thrills? Odds are, you've experienced this at one point or another.

Many times every day! But then I just continue playing video games...

[Sizzlebuzz]

At 11/2/09 03:46 AM, Tribalfusion-X wrote: Many times every day! But then I just continue playing video games...

At least you still get some enjoyment out of that.

[Innermike]

At 11/2/09 03:46 AM, Tribalfusion-X wrote: Many times every day! But then I just continue playing video games...

Stop complaining !

you made sweet love to Gagsy

[Conspiracy3]

I often find myself wishing that I get kidnapped and tortured or otherwise injured in some kind of bloody way just to make my life more interesting. I hate living the "happy" life.

[Psil0]

At 10/27/09 12:19 AM, NightCrawler wrote:

I envy those on roller coasters.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life is a continuous routine of non-necessities, and cheap thrills? Odds are, you've experienced this at one point or another. I feel like this quite often, and in some regards it's something to revel in - a life of stability, with few complications and even fewer downers.
But what of the other life lived by few? You know, the borderline bi-polar, eccentric individuals so caught up with their emotions that they experience both sides of the spectrum, I.E. - the extremely happy, and extremely sad.

Certainly you're not one to agree once you see the bouts of depression, but it's hard to forget the sky-high joy you've witnessed as well.

So what I'm asking you is: If you had the choice to be an emotionally stable human being, experiencing neither great highs or lows, would you want to be? Or would you prefer taking the ultimate good with some of the deeply bad?

This is stupid, unless you enjoy the idea of waking up everyday wanting to die (yeah that's the extreme depression you want) then I suggest you remain emotionally stable. I would, in fact, love to be emotionally stable. It's too god damn hard trying to live life when you can't control where your emotions will be at any moment.

So basically, if you love being in a different mood every 2 hours, then I suggest you enjoy your emotional stability.

[stereobangbang]

it may sound cheesy, but ferrealz, life is what you make it. looking at stuff in a positive or just not as effin terrible light really does wonders for you emotional stability. i used to think everything was the end of the world, and i hit some really low lows, ie a hardcore heroin addiction (i dont need lectured, i've overcome this habit and am in recovery) but i learned that things can always be far far worse, and to look at life like its worth living. because all you have to do is make yourself happy, not everyone else.