Do you ever wanna just lose your nut? Go crazy. Absolutely crazy and start to scream like a child. I do. There’s a little baby who lives on the floor below us, and this poor child screams a lot.
And his poor mother is so frustrated. When I’ve seen her in the elevator, her eyes are haggard. Her face is haggard. She looks like she doesn’t sleep at all. I had a nephew like that.
He stayed with us for, I think, 2 or 3 days while his parents went away, and this poor child screamed for, I kid you not, 15 hours nonstop. It was really an experience to see. So I guess screaming is a way of release, isn’t it? Now, I think there’s really two directions we can go here. The positive scream or, of course, the negative scream.
And the positive scream, I think would be when life is just not fair and this happens at times. You know, it was a tough winter. It was cold and I’m looking for a jacket. I was in a department store and I stumbled upon the correct jacket the correct jacket. And at the time I was in Taiwan, and so the NT was worth about 30 to the American dollar around this level.
So I’m there and I stumble upon this jacket, 5,000 n t. Little bit over maybe 250, $260. Not bad for a beautiful jacket. So I get the clerk and I try it on and, jeez, it’s just fitting very well. And in the process, the tag slips a little further and I realize that there is another 0.
This is not 5,000 n t, $260. This is 50,000 n t. This is $26100. Quite a difference. But to be fair, it is a shopping center and it was an expensive shop and all of that.
But at this point, and I think the jacket was blue. And so I said to the woman, I was so embarrassed, I said, excuse me. Do you have this in pink? And she said, pink. Pink.
Nobody makes pink in a jacket like this. I said, oh, I’m so sorry. I really wanted the color pink. So needless to say, I had to leave it alone and I left. I never did find a jacket of this quality for that kind of money but I really at that point wanted to scream just fall right down and lose my self control but of course I didn’t.
Now I did teach a sales manager for a large company and she told me that on the weekends, she used to escape to the mountains and would find a precipice or crevasse or something with seemingly bottomless, and she would just stand there and just let it all hang out, scream for hours if she could to help her relax. And she was able to deal with the inane questions of her of her staff during the week. And she struck me as an extremely calm woman for the, you know, pressure she was under, but this was her secret. Now on the negative side, these are people that truly lose self control. And I mentioned this before, I saw a man driving an expensive Mercedes Benz.
The stoplight seemingly came up rather quickly and the car behind just touched the back of him. And he proceeded to jump out of the car and break this poor man in the previous car, the car behind him. And it struck me as really unfair because the levels of power were ridiculous. The man with the Mercedes Benz was, of course, good looking and rich, I would say, and powerful, etcetera, etcetera. And the chap behind him was just a shriveled up little old man, broken and bags under his eyes.
Cruel. Just cruel. I thought it was unnecessary, you know, at this point. Right? So I think as we go forward in life, I mean, we have to find all sorts of ways to reduce our stress levels in this very, very strange and cosmopolitan world.
We’re subject to so many influences and powers and statements, everything else. Very confusing many times. Right? So whenever we feel as if we’re going to lose our patience or our temper, we can either try the scream of my sales manager or we can do the internal way through prayer, meditation, you know, what have you. But I don’t think it’s correct in any civilized society to allow oneself to just let your unbridled anger descend upon a poor human being.
I do believe one thing for sure. Ultimately, we have to learn to speak with one another. Whatever our religious convictions, our view of the world, our ethnicity, our gender, we have to learn to talk. And I may not like you at all for that matter. I may not like your culture at all.
But given that we can preclude a level of violence, certainly, we can have a chat and somehow resolve our problems. And, you know, the man I visited in India, Sadhguru, he always states that violence is a direct result of lack of language in a way. We cannot communicate adequately, so we resort to violence. And you know, the ridiculous part about violence, the war business that I can call it such, is ultimately it resolves nothing. But maybe that’s the plan, unfortunately.
There is no real desire to put violence asunder. But of course, we have to if we’re going to survive as a species because the weaponry now is so technologically advanced that we can wipe ourselves out many times over. And I think we’re not quite prepared for what could be in that sense. I read an article recently on the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and the people were unprepared for the consequence of what actually happened. They were quite stunned that they didn’t really know what it was.
A visit from god, a storm, what had happened here? You know, but that was the dropping of the first nuclear bomb. And you can imagine that scenario. And now the bombs, of course, are 100 of times stronger than what was dropped on Hiroshima. So the human species probably wouldn’t disappear.
It would be broken back to the stone age, basically. It might even lose the capacity for fire, writing, knowledge. I mean, it just goes on, doesn’t it? So I think on the positive side, we must learn to scream positively. And gosh, and I won’t be looking for any 50,000 n t dollar jackets for a little while.
And you know what they say, you know what they say. Critical thinking is necessary if we’re going to leave a fulfilling and happy life, and we’re gonna find ways to reduce our stress levels, beloved beings, and critical thinking is great. Truly great. You take care. God bless. Bye bye.