Stimulus is the prerequisite of any action, it's the
soul of efforts, fighting spirit, the thing making us strong enough to sustain
and keep working even in highest adversities... some sort of stimulus is mandatory
to sustain the urge to stay alive. Adversity on the other hand can be defined
as lack of stimuli for growth, it's the scarcity of positive things, positive
feelings, a threat to existence... The quantity and quality of adversities we
face may be the results of our actions or may be purely matters of chance or
maybe a combination of both... but they do come; the bad thing ends and the worse
follows; surprises come one after another to the extent that you may stop
getting surprised... typhoons come, tsunamis happen, earthquakes occur in your
delicate mind and push you backwards sometimes far behind the starting line and
you've to strive to reach to the starting line leave apart reaching the
finishing line.
It requires a highly developed and strong frontal
cortex for animals to think of the future and to keep on pressing the lever even
if the food reward doesn't come for one time, two times, tens and hundreds of
times... but what that poor frontal cortex shall do if thousands of presses are
fruitless, and instead you start getting shocks..... I think frustration is a
natural phenomenon if the situation is too frustrating. Frustration doesn't
come alone; depression, aggression, decreased cognition are all it's
companions. It's a vicious cycle, and it goes on affecting each and every part
of our lives, making us a person we hardly would have imagined when we were not
frustrated. Firstly we lose our voice and then our desire to have our own
voice... the pen is there, so is the paper, but the collection of words is
often soulless.
It requires intact cognition, lots of energy and
high spirits to search meaning in meaningless tasks... it requires extreme
confidence, passion and devotion to search traces of hopes in hopeless
conditions. Sadly to frustrated tired brains even life saving tasks seem to be
meaningless, slightly joyous tasks seem to be extremely mundane. Dullness,
boredom, hopelessness, meaninglessness and also sadness... life gets soaked in
such dark shades, we become adapted to them and eventually forget the sense of
brightness. We come to a point where life can become extremely unproductive,
highly dependent on the very scarce sources of stimulation it has... With all
joys disappeared from it, the life can become synonymous to painful suffering.
But pain isn't a neutral thing... it's a stimulus.
Frustration sensitizes us to all the little positive things we have in our
lives, they all when combined are enough to make us to get up and start again
with a different approach. It is painful of course, but pain is I feel a foundation
of some sort of creative thinking... though this thinking is totally different
from the creative thinking due to joy, it can be very productive. Even the act
of imagining of how life would have been if things were slightly different is
very soothing. Frustration is better than having no emotions at all, it doesn't
feel good and thus can act as a stimulus to do something to get out of the
situation... If compared to writing frustration isn't the end of the story,
it's not a full stop nor is it a comma, it's writing the same sentences with a
different tone and maybe with a different meaning... who knows if tomorrow
something blissful happens and the next paragraph contains a tinge of smiling
heaven in it.
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