Pride and Humility. Love and Hate.

I liked this reading and found it to be so real. One could say that it hit me dead center. Only because I never thought this hard about why our moods change because of our surroundings. It is truly interesting.

These things that we feel because of others happen so easily that sometimes we are not aware of it, at least I know I am not. So when reading it opened my eyes to see that we are like that and it made me thing extensively. Why do emotions of our surroundings have an influence on how we feel? And what is the difference from loving an object with on feeling and loving an object that can feel and think? What is the difference with hate?

2.1.9.1 “It must be some way associated with us in order to touch our pride.”
This quote strikes me because it is true with everything and anything. If one does not have a feeling of attachment to something then it has no meaning. Therefore how can we feel pain or pleasure? In order for something to make us feel it needs to have a meaning for ourselves. But why is it that it must have an attachment with us? It makes me wonder because I do not care much for football, so if someone were to tell me that playing football was against the law, I would not care but why is that? What is the true reason behind that besides the fact that it holds no influence on my life or character? It makes me wonder even more about the human mind and how one day it can mean something to us and then the next day it is a forgotten memory.