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How do you re-gain interest in something you lost?
QuietTruth:
--- Quote from: Hajj Ibrahim Islam Abdul-Infinite Abu Muhammad Uthman on May 07, 2006, 04:01:50 PM ---All the sudden I stopped enjoying the things I used to do. I loved basketball and was playing for the school team, I kept forcing myself to like it and play anyway but it wasn't the same. I kept hanging out with the same friends but the stuff we were doing wasn't fun to me anymore. Music didn't even sound the same anymore, I wasn't getting the same high I used to get from it.
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You just nailed it!
--- Quote from: Hajj Ibrahim Islam Abdul-Infinite Abu Muhammad Uthman on May 07, 2006, 04:01:50 PM ---Here's how I got out of this condition, I'll give some pointers and leave it up to you...
-To sum it up in one sentence, what your going through is deeper than your ability to express right now. So you need to start looking inward, maybe even carrying a journal, and exploring your mind and thoughts and reading back over them later. Also you need to expand your vocabulary and seek knowledge so that you can find the words to express what your going through.
-Initially it was hip-hop that got me out of it at first. Not so much from the standpoint that hip-hop made me feel good or forget about my problems. But actually I was delving heavily into the lyrical side of hip-hop, and exploring artists who were really bringing some knowledge or substance (meaning, emotion) to their rhymes. I even started freestylin myself and writing rhymes. The more I learned how to express myself the more the aforementioned condition went away.
-Later, I started reading alot of books to better understand my condition. Books about spirituality and energy like "Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield really helped broaden my perspective so that I wasn't so insulated in my thinking. I was never into Christianity, but the more I started studying the more I began to realize that Christianity was actually grafted from the origional religion of worshipping One God which is Islam. I started studying figures like Malcolm X, Nathan McCall, H. Rap Browne aka Jamil Al Amin, and the more I understood their struggles the better I could come to terms with my own.
-Ultimately this search led me towards Islam which was the solution to all of it. But the point is, like I said, your experiencing something in your heart deeper than your minds ability to comprehend and explain at this moment. Until you do some soul searching and come to terms with it and find a solution, the condition will remain.
Anyway, if you want to know more just ask me anytime, on the thread or PM me, peace.
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J Bananas:
MONEY. put money into it.
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
--- Quote from: Hajj Ibrahim Abdul-Infinite Islam Abu Muhammad Uthman on May 07, 2006, 04:01:50 PM --- I was never into Christianity, but the more I started studying the more I began to realize that Christianity was actually grafted from the origional religion of worshipping One God which is Islam.
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Nice post and everything, but you got 1 thing wrong; the original religion of worshipping one God was Judaism, not Islam. Even Muslims will tell you this...But I heavily agree with the expansion of ones vocabulary to express deeper thoughts and emotions...PeACe
QuietTruth:
Now this 'condition', it ain't like depression or along those lines right? :-\
And expanding my vocab will get rid on this 'condition'?
Sorry wit this question bullshit but this shit is aggravating :P
coola:
--- Quote from: Why not believe in me? J Bananas! on May 08, 2006, 01:31:18 PM ---MONEY. put money into it.
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lol
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