🤔A. Why Some Problem Appears “Core Problems” of Life on Which the Life Hangs?
1. Breakup:– One feels rejected. What’s the point of even living if I am rejected by the one closest to me?
2. Job Loss:– How can I manage EMIs? Children’s education fees? Parent’s medicine? What will people say?
3. Coronary Artery Blockage:– My life is at threat because of my heart’s blockage. I will die if I don’t put a balloon in the arteries.
4. Childlessness:- Everyone asks when will you have a baby. How to answer? Let’s have a test tube baby. Once we have a baby all problems will be solved.
5. Divorce:- I can’t tolerate this person anymore. Once we have a divorce, all problems will be solved.
6. Once I raise $100M all business problems will be solved.
How do life situations appear as pervasive problems?
If you closely read some of the above common life problems that people think are holding their life back, somehow solving those problems will lead to a better life. This is more due to the perceived thought that people and relatives around us will not be happy with our current life situation, which puts us in sustained negative feelings. The negative feelings then create a persistent chain of thoughts. We start living in imagination, planning, scheming, dealing with this negative feeling, and slowly these problems engulf us into them. We get so struck by these problems that life appears meaningless without solving them.
In reality, all the above scenarios are simply some situations in life. Life will always have hard situations, as life itself is navigating through the hard situations to {Survive, Thrive, and Reproduce}. A problem is one that threatens a severe obstacle to the basic needs of life, ie {survive, thrive, and reproduce}. When you observe the above situations closely, they all are to some extent related to any of these three.
Any situation in life that presents an obstacle to Survival, Thriving, or Reproduction, which we fail to overcome easily appears like a pervasive problem of life, on which the very life is dependent on;
