Wow. I relate seriously to the first half of your story—the “read lots of books, learn about traps, don’t fall in” part. But instead of completely ignoring emotions, I had decided to find the source and fix it. But just like you said—a kid doesn’t have much power to fix things outside of themselves. But I had another piece of advice from family—it’s not the outside that affects your emotions, you affect your emotions. If you’re bored, just make yourself feel less bored by doing something (singing, drawing, thinking about what you’re going to eat for dinner, AKA making your brain do work instead of whining).
I guess the main idea I got from books was that whiny idiots are idiots and are highly annoying. I try not to complain too much, and now I’m this horribly excitable person because when you have to make everything interesting yourself [didn’t have a phone, so I couldn’t be the kid who just sits down in the middle of a museum to play video games or whatever], everything is NEW! and EXCITING! (even though you’ve seen this same exact building fifty times)
Wow. I relate seriously to the first half of your story—the “read lots of books, learn about traps, don’t fall in” part.
But instead of completely ignoring emotions, I had decided to find the source and fix it. But just like you said—a kid doesn’t have much power to fix things outside of themselves. But I had another piece of advice from family—it’s not the outside that affects your emotions, you affect your emotions. If you’re bored, just make yourself feel less bored by doing something (singing, drawing, thinking about what you’re going to eat for dinner, AKA making your brain do work instead of whining).
I guess the main idea I got from books was that whiny idiots are idiots and are highly annoying. I try not to complain too much, and now I’m this horribly excitable person because when you have to make everything interesting yourself [didn’t have a phone, so I couldn’t be the kid who just sits down in the middle of a museum to play video games or whatever], everything is NEW! and EXCITING! (even though you’ve seen this same exact building fifty times)