June 2, 2008

Worthless Thought


"Doing something for other people is like, you get satisfied because of it, so actually it is not for other people but for yourself".

Someone told me it before. I thought it was true. I didn't think in the way like that, so it was a really new way of looking at things, but I agreed without any objection. I even thought it was interesting. However the action is what we sacrifice ourselves, we get satisfied instead, so we do such a thing. However little the satisfaction is, we act like that because we definitely get the small feeling of accomplishment or satisfaction. If we really don't get anything, we won't do anything for other people. But what I wonder is, movement of feelings like getting sad or getting glad like that is caused by some chemical substances. For example, say I am jilted by my bf, so I get very sad, get nihilistic feelings, and even if I want to die, those things are just controlled by electronic impulse among neurons or hormone or stuff like that. If I think like that, things get silly but we desire such joy or satisfaction caused by such chemical substances and live every day. People's working is just that of chemical substances', lol.

I'm living today with using electricity and hormones to think such a worthless thing.


 「人にために何かするのってそうしたことによって自分の心が満たされるんだから、結局は人のためじゃなくて自分のためだよね。」

 昔誰かが私にそう言った。確かにって思った。今までそんな風な考え方をしたことなんてなくて、まったく新しい物の見方の切り口だったけど、すんなり納得がいった。面白いとさえ思った。自身を犠牲にしたような行動でも、それと引き換えに満足感を得るから私たちはそういうことをするんだ。たとえそれがどんなに些細なものだったとしても、その小さな達成感、満足感を確かに私たちは得ている。自分が得るものが本当に全くないのであれば、人のために何かをしたりなんてしないだろう。でも不思議なのは、悲しかったりだとか嬉しかったりだとか、そういう気持ちの動きは何らかの化学物質によるものだということ。例えば私が彼氏に振られたとして、すごく悲しくて虚無感に襲われてたとえ死にたかったとしても、その感情を支配しているのは神経間の電気刺激だったりホルモンだったりするんだよね…。そう考えると何かいろいろ馬鹿らしくなってくるけど、その化学物質によって起こされる喜びや満足感を求めて人は日々生きている。人々の営みってまさに化学物質の営みなんだね(笑)

 そんなくだらないことを考えるのに電気やホルモンを使いながら今日も私は生きています。

4 comments:

Jeff said...

don't know why.. but that post kinda seems to promote drug use to me, lol.. ^^;

what with the all it's just chemicals in the brain and feeling satisfied bit, heh..

anyway, mm.. can't say I've ever really thought about it that way before.. but not quite sure I agree either.. haha, if it were true, it'd mean humanity is quite the selfish lot.. can't win either way, regardless if you do help or not.. think about it :P

now about chemicals and stuff.. yeah, it's quite fascinating.. what interests me the most is how it all works in the brain.. how chemicals and electrical impulses can form and store memories, thoughts, etc.. go figure..

see you soon! :)

Megumi said...

Lol. If you ask me if I really agree with the opinion, I'm not sure. I don't want to deny conscience of people, but I just thought vaguely, like "ah, that's reasonable" when I heard his talking. But people are maybe quite selfish livings since we only have own consciousness and act along it. Mmmm it is hard to explain what I think in English :S Please open my head and look into my brain to make sure what I think, lol.

Jeff said...

mm.. so explain it in japanese then :P

Megumi said...

まぁ、それは後々…(笑)