Does emotional self-flagellation serve any useful purpose?
The central to this is the relation that each one of us bears with ourselves; its nature, its intensity, and most importantly, its truth. How do you relate to yourself? Or, how do I relate to myself? This is the key question, the answer to which we like madmen seek all our lives. We seek this basically in form of our relation to other people, to our valuables and possession, and even to our pets. It is when we try to win friendship, approval, appreciation and acceptance of other people. What in fact we do is try to define and further strengthen the relational bond that we unavoidably bear to ourselves. Do you believe being ourselves us such fun? It is not that easy all the time, and on all occasions, I hope you will appreciate. The question therefore is: if there is some flagellation going on then who is trying to beat up whom? I think the more troublesome is the nature of this relation the more difficult it becomes to find an answer to this question. The best and the safest approach t
