Dead Ends of the Mind







Ever notice how people seem to reject things that you find perfect or flawless. For example, your mother might disapprove of your choice of girl despite the fact that she may be perfect for u and faultless. Its probably due to a mental block that a person develops. He subconciously prepares himself to dislike what you are about to show him. Sometimes when you introduce a new friend to an old and very close friend the latter will later tell you everything that he finds wrong in the former. Or you may find that when you tell someone of a new discovery like a great song that you just heard or a fabulous movie that you just saw, no matter how great it might be the other person might reject it or call it mediocre. These are all examples of mental block.
Various factors can lead to a mental block. It may be protectiveness in case of the first example. It is invariably jealousy in the second example. As for the third, the reason i believe is ego. Let me explain. When someone rejects ur discovery it may be due to the fact that u cant stop raving about it so hes determined to prove u wrong. Or he resents the fact that it was you that discovered it and not him or it may be because u found fault with some previous discovery of his.
Sometimes the opposite of a mental block may also exist. It depends on how the thing is shown or advertised as the case may be. In such a case no matter how dumb the product people will always pretend to like it. In some absurd way they manage to convince themselves that they like it so its no longer even a pretence. A prime example would be the fashion sense of people nowadays. Sometimes people can project things in such enticing light that we feel the need to like it. Not liking it would be uncool and being uncool is social death. So we like things that are cool and dislike things that are supposed to be uncool. Oh we may secretly like them but we have to keep up the pretence. For example some people want to be recognised as true rock fans. Their first step is not usually liking all rock music but trashing the various other genres. Then they go in for the various categories that rock holds and pretend to like them all. All that can be said of such people is that they have lesser control over their minds but they let their minds and imagination control them.They need to take a hard look at themselves because they are letting their lives be defined by others.