Conflict Management

When two goons go into a fight, you can always act as a mediator and try to separate them. Or you could be less gung ho about it and refer it to the police.

When two nations declare war, there's always international pressure present, from dissenting bystanding nations so as to end the skirmish. Or the other countries could always count on the foolhardy Americans.

But what do you really do if you are at odds with yourself? Find a psychiatrist/counsellor?

I figured out that if i opted for the stated resolution, i'd most probably find myself bound by a straitjacket and condemned to a padded cell. At least, i perceive it so...

I'm a logical person. By that i mean that i employ logical reasoning and rational thinking extensively in my everyday life. Common isn't it? No surprise you say, a natural byproduct of the education system.

I have always seek and accepted only logical and sound answers to my questions. No doubt about it. Answers that deviate from this, are greeted with derison and contempt. My mind has been programmed to reject them outright. Pure blasphemy and a stain to the sacrosanctity of the human ability to make sound decisions. A heinous crime. In fact, one of my friends was hanged countless time for being a hardcore criminal in this sense.

But on the other hand, I have astonishingly displayed irrational behaviour. I wouldn't go to lengths to detail it but i do make an admission of this. Yes it does happen.

I'm logical and yet irrational too?

The general model used nowadays to explain human behaviour talk about behaviour varying according to time, situation as well as environment(internal and external). Not that i'd want to demolish this central dogma but it's just that i find it amazing and sometimes even horrifying so as to speak, to find that i have immiscible "behaviours" flowing freely within this vessel, separated by nothing and governed with the most erratic laws of nature. There seems to be some mysterious dynamics driving each of them independently, causing them to precipitate and manifest at will. It is a consolation that both have never appeared together at the same time for i really wouldn't know what to do.

A person of opposites.

To seek a calm settlement... Are the Chinese referring to this when talk of seeking a balance?

Then I have a lot to learn in that case.