HORMONAL CHANGES

October 26, 2015

Somebody said today that her boss seems to always pick on her.  She said that her boss should have been a bit more understanding because their unit is located in a far station and they encounter so many difficulties merely trying to relay and submit reports and claims or secure instructions and communications.  When I told her that maybe her boss is undergoing hormonal changes, she scoffed.

I would like to give the boss the benefit of the doubt and not say outright that she just might be nasty, so instead, since it is an eve of the full moon, let us say that the boss is really undergoing hormonal changes.  It would probably also be believable because at her age, I think she might be in or near menopausal stage and subject to erratic hot flushes.

But the bigger issue is not physical but this: Why do a group of people react differently even if they might be exposed to the same stresses and challenges?  I guess psychologists have it right in saying that we are all a product of our genes and environment.  There are some people who I observe must come from families where niceness and generosity runs in the blood.  There are also some who I can see that greed, selfishness and pride were their staple food and basic nutrition in growing up.

But no matter the environment and upbringing, we all have the same set of proteins, although arranged differently, making up our DNAs, and the same number and types of chromosomes in them, unless we have Down’s Syndrome.  In short, we all have the potential to live in harmony with each other and not cause distress and disappointment or discouragement in other people.

I believe these questions could be discussed as an extension to the one I wrote about yesterday on personal conviction.  Maybe because life is indeed larger than us, some people choose to live their lives at the expense of others.  They do not care if they have stepped on other people, giving them resentments and heartaches, as long as they can feel good about themselves, and think that they are superior.  But feeling superior can only be an indication that one felt inferior in the first place, because if a person feels secure and confident about himself/herself, there is no need to prove that you know better and are in a higher position than other people, no?  It’s like people who try their hardest to be pretty and fashionable or macho and handsome.  Why try too much when you have those already?  You should only try to strive for those things that you do not have by nature.  Two good examples would be knowledge and wisdom.  We were not born with them and our whole lives are meant to be one long process of learning.  These should be our priorities—knowing ourselves, others, the world and environment more, and gaining wisdom that we can pass on to others when our times are up.

This is me putting my thoughts on the screen of my computer, in front of the growing moon outside the window.  More than hormonal changes, even though our bodies are 70% water and subject to the gravitational pull of the moon, shouldn’t we also adapt the fluidity of water and do our best to live at peace and in harmony with ourselves, the environment and other people?