Let me know your thoughts on the following statement:
"There's no such thing as a bad day".
Well, in the astral maybe not.
But here, that's a whole other story, I mean if your wheel of fortune is totally against hypothetically you end up in crashing your car, and all day long you have bad stuff happening to you like really bad luck/etc, your pet dies, or you loose your house only to go to the drugstore and enter a holdup situation where you get shot twice... I think that could be a case of a bad day lol, it depends on the perception of the person living that day.
I could have a bad day just by having a big migraine all day long or being sick throwing up all my stomach in the toilet..
Depends how you perceive a bad day. We know what a good day is, so we have a relatively good idea about what a bad day is.
It comes down to how much control the individual has over their reality and their experiences. I think it can be argued that many people have a very high degree of control, greater than 80% even over their mental states, but in order not to have some days that are "worse" than others, they would need control over the full human condition, which no one I have ever met has achieved. There are just things that can happen to a person that are beyond their control, and beyond the ability of even a heavily developed individual to cope with I think.
But it also depends on what is meant by "Bad day". Is a bad day a day where nothing is learned? Is it a day where there are more terrible experiences than good ones? Is it a day where everything is outside of the person's control?
I have heard some argue that the sensations we experience as negative can be experienced as positives if we change our attitude toward them; in my opinion though, this thesis actually calls into question the basis of ethics then, because normally we reason inductively that if pleasant experiences are good for us as individuals, it is probably good for others to have pleasant experiences as opposed to traumatic ones, and we align our actions toward others to facilitate this. If what are normally thought of as negative experiences are just as desirable to have, then we potentially have no basis for treating others well, outside of self-interest.
Yes and No.
Yes because lets say someone loses their job, gets in a fight with a friend, bad breakup etc.. That's a bad day. No one wants to go through that because it, well, just isn't pleasant.
But.. No because you have bad days and bad experiences for a reason - to learn from them. Learning only enhances your spiritual evolution which would make it not so much of a bad day after all in the grand scheme of things :-)
Your day can only be bad if you let it
So... can we say that a bad day is perspective and relative?
Very much so. As an example, may I submit First World bad day and Third World bad day. All about perspective and relative to expectations and assumptions.
QuoteVery much so. As an example, may I submit First World bad day and Third World bad day. All about perspective and relative to expectations and assumptions.
Indeed. And third world good day and first world good day might be very similar in how they are experienced (third world good day might even be substantially better), even though first world good day might take substantially more resources to happen for some people.
The human system is actually very simple. It really doesn't take much to push our buttons in a good way.
If you are able to have third world good days, yet live in the first world, you are truly lucky I feel. You might as well be living in Amitabha's paradise!
I think it depends, if someone has a really bad day and then end up dead without finishing the things he had left to do...
Pretty sure that person would say it was a bad day.
When you have a really bad day and you loose a family member or anyone I'm sure you won't come back 20 years later and say it was actually a good day lol.
If you have a bad day and some people make you angry then yeah maybe a few days/week/years later you'll come up with a good enough reason as to why this wasn't such a bad day.
It depends, if you see a family lose as not such a big deal and idk... gotta learn to differentiate.
Bad days are usually just things we say when we just experienced one... Nobody's gonna ask you: - hey remember that bad day you had 20 years ago? lol
They are bad days until you don't remember them I guess.
Or for someone who endured much then a bad day can be just a little bad.
Really is about the person's experience but there's definitely that wheel of fortune in effect.
Sometimes it's just better to stay home lol.