When you are going through bad patch in life may be financially , in relationships or health wise?
This is really an insightful question. In my view, when we are going through a bad patch in life, we shrink into our self (perhaps to fortify ourselves), but this only makes us more acutely aware of the adversity which in turn only enhances the feeling of distress. In a way, our first reaction makes us more subjective which increases the imbalance of our mind caused by the feeling of distress. Subconsciously we realize this and as a result we get into the opposite mode of distancing ourselves from the issue, something akin to escapism….. we try to forget ourselves by deliberately getting busy with irrelevant or tangential matters and activities. This too doesn’t help since the adversity is real and can’t just be wished away. It is then that we begin to get objective so as to look at the issue in a detached manner in order to be able to address it rather than either suffer it or escape it. It is in this mode of tackling that we need to get philosophical, since that’s the best way to r
