Saturday, January 18, 2014

Garbage = Negative emotions!

We  collect garbage in a dustbin and thrash it every day or every week. Now, if you imagine that there are two persons in a house. One person is responsible for thrashing a garbage. He decides that he will not throw that forever. First few days, the other person will not realize that there is garbage in a house. The first person is trying to cover it properly, so the other person does not find it. However, after a short time, the garbage will start to smell. So, whenever one goes in the kitchen will smell it. The other person thinks that it's the responsibility of the first person to thrash the garbage. So he does not take action, although the smell is annoying. As none of the two persons are taking action, the pile of garbage is now overflowing the bin and it is lying everywhere on the kitchen floor. After a few more days, the people are walking on the pile of garbage in the whole house. Both the persons are complaining that it smells bad and blame each other, walking over the garbage pile. It never occurred to either of them to clean the mess.  At the end, they both leave the house or the person to get away from the smell.

Find your own moral of this story. Here, garbage is symbol of negative thoughts or emotions about any person/thing. Kitchen and house signifies the person's life. Dustbin and thrashing garbage out of house refers to properly purging out negative emotions regularly in a healthy way or at a proper place. The two persons are people in any relationship. Now, once again read this story and relate to all the relationships in your life.  
So, are you thrashing the garbage regularly?

4 comments:

  1. Nicely written article with nice analogy.
    Everyone can trash the garbage and bring home little fragrance everyday :)

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  2. How can negative emotions just be simply thrown away like garbage?
    How to deal with negative emotions ?

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    1. We do not throw garbage on the street or anywhere. We dispose it at proper place and with properly handling it. Simple advice to deal with negative emotions about others is talk to the concerned person. Tell that what you do not like and what is bothering you as well as what you like. It need to be two way efforts always. :)

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