To understand something in order to cure it

As we get older, it seems like the ability just to feel diminishes.

I would like to discuss several possible reasons. One is that as many muscles go hard as you grown older (for example, younger people are a lot more likely to be able to get their head to the floor in a stretch), so do the muscles of the heart or mind, even the metaphorical ones, that produce emotion. Howev er, the muscles of the body can retain flexibility and it can even increase to greater extent when they are stretched to their limit, as in the case of a dancer.

Another is energy conservation. Once one has stabilised to a point where they feel safe, the fluctuating emotions only get in the way. However, this idea is contradicted by the fact that emotions also produce energy and (btw, by "fact" I mean my own experience) and that energy is productive.

Another is negative reinforcement. HAving feelings can result in hurt. Hope results in diasappointment. Love in anger. FAith in disillusionment. Excitement in boredom. And so on. If our lifestyle, society, our environment produced too many negative reactions like this, maybe we just stop dreaming.

- Too much TV, office work, bland train rides and traffic jams, canned music, uninspired education systems, and other garbage that assaults us everyday in the modern world results in repetitive stress injury of the psyche

- deep down we have come to believe that all emotions are incidental, are chemically produced, are innately dishonest and are redundant.

- we are deeply disappointed in and ashamed of the lives which we lead. we cling to repression. Naturally this is accompanied by numbness

- we are not humans at all, but a preprogrammed cog in the system. We are not supposed to feel at all.