This-essay is a7808121.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %CHOOSING PROBLEMS 780812 We choose the problems which confront us by the relational decisions which we make. Hidden in our decisions are the roots to our most basic problems. Many of our problems cannot be solved, they can only be decided out of existence by making different relational decisions. For perverse reasons we may make decisions which occasion conflict, frustration, meaninglessness, hopelessness, waste, ambiguity, etc. We may choose problems which we think we wish we did not have. We may find our fulfillment in being confronted by problems which we think we resent. Our fulfillment may come from coping with problems which we have at some deep level selected---by the relational decisions we have made. We may not understand our choice of problems and so have difficult times in trying to solve them---but we may yet have assigned them to ourselves. Technocrats seek to solve problems(dilemmas?) via the development of sophisticated techniques, rather than by consideration of the personal relationships which occasion the existence of the problem(dilemmas?). Technocrats are unlikely to examine the choice of which problems(dilemmas?) to create---and deal instead with thoughtlessly chosen problems conceived by narrow considerations leading to relational decisions. Problem solvers thus need to learn how to identify the roots of the alternative problems(dilemmas?) which they might focus upon in order to find their fulfillment. It may be wiser to reject some problems in favor of other alternative problems which may be occasioned by turning in certain problems "in-trade". We do not have to deal with every problem which we tentatively choose--- we can decide to trade some problems in for alternative problems(dilemmas?) which it seems wiser to focus upon. The old problems may then cease to exist, rather than remain unsolved. Eliminating a problem is not the same as solving it, but may be wiser than solving the problem. Technocrats may find it impossible to eliminate technical problems---because they find their fulfillment in "selecting" solving technical problems. It may not be wise to solve every technical problem which we tentatively choose---it may be wiser to eliminate some of our technical problems by making alternative relational decisions which occasion non-technical rather than technical problems. We need to choose our problems(dilemmas?) carefully, and lovingly. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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