After returning home, Yun took the book and opened it.
-Trying new things: parkour, ice skating...
He closed the book with a tick on the sentence.
The caption read 'Feeling Emotions'.
He lifted the book to the table and reached for the blood bag. After putting it in his pocket, he went out of his room to find Nanren, to his room.
He could tell that Nanren was not well because of the observations he made these days.
Yun was quite observant and careful, even if he didn't notice it. And of course...
Making sense of emotions was perhaps his only problem.
She saw that Nanren was shy when she was with him, blushing or running away. But she attributed it all to his 'shy' personality. If the system hadn't always hinted at Nanren, Yun would never have thought of such a thing.
He stood in front of the room and knocked on the door for a while.
He hadn't heard the knock on the door. Impatient, Yun opened the door and entered.
Sitting in an armchair, Nanren focused on the book in her hand. Step by step closer. He bent slightly so that he could smell Nanren's soft shower gel.
And Nanren was so engrossed in the book that he didn't even notice his presence from this proximity.
'What interested him so much?' Yun turned his focus to the book.
'Always think positive! You will get what you want!'
Personal development book?
"Stupid"
"Ahh!" Nanren jumped and fell back as he stepped back. He was holding his ear and looking flushed/shocked (?).
"Oh, sorry." Yun did not think at that moment that he would be scared. What was happening to her? Actually, he was very careful about this kind of thing...
"S-it's okay" he got up from the ground and straightened himself up. He was nervous, so he chose the easiest option to distract himself.
"Why do you think you're stupid?"
Yun paused with the question, then tried to answer briefly.
"If people were to win by thinking well where they sit, there would be no losers"
Nanren:...
Logical.
"So you think it's stupid to be positive?"
When Nanren asked questions again, Yun replied.
"No."
"If I have to explain, there are things you need to do in life, right? Thinking positive only helps you to do the things you need to do more efficiently, and to provide you with the energy to get that job done. If positivity is an energy, what is the use of energy that will not be used for the purpose?"
Nanren shook his head. It was a logical conclusion...
"So how do you think it should be?" This topic intrigued him. The 'polyanna' or 'be a saint' bullshit in the books was too far from life to be realistic.
"To accept."
Slowly Yun continued. Maybe it was the first time he was discussing his opinion with someone.
"There are good and bad things in life and they will happen. Worrying about them only creates problems. Crying and whining only increases the problem"
"But people are not machines either"
Nanren was taken aback, thinking that this word would come from Yun…
"You have to cry where it's necessary and relax, take all that burden off."
"And when the time comes, he should be able to be happy and positive."
"Actually everything lies in balance"
Nanren loved his speech, wondering what his thoughts were, always silent. That's why he didn't stop asking.
"Can you open a little more?"
Yun sighed, but seeing him so eager, even with his stony will, he couldn't refuse. Finally, he sighed and accepted.
"My fault is not being able to strike this balance. I look at everything logically unintentionally, whereas people act on their emotions.
Like this"
Nanren was extremely surprised, so self-aware?!
Should he relax?
Yun continued.
"Being positive is the spice. However, spice alone burns the throat."
"If it takes effort to have food, people are more inclined to skip labor. Earning money the easy way, learning a language the easy way...
You can walk now and do you know how many times you have fallen to find out? But before you became a master, you were retiring... like this.
That's why people are tempted by the easy way, actually good scams are also made this way" Yun squinted his eyes as if he was interested, he wasn't going to scam people right?!
"In short, the shortcut always takes you into the abyss.
Of course, it's also stupid not to make things easy."
"But people ignore the labor, don't want to suffer, and when laziness predominates, they only get obsessed with the spice of the dish, while imagining the ready meal. Like barbecue, what's the use without meat even though the spice makes it taste great?
The shortcut seems so magical and fancy that people focus on this spice. So just by 'thinking' and doing nothing, everything will be alright."
"I don't fully agree with that," said Nanren. "I think faith is also important"
Yun quietly waited for her to speak.
"Not only is the meat tasteless, it's a tasteless meal without seasoning and salt..."
He proceeded through the same example.
"The existence of psychology is also a fact. There are people who killed themselves with the power of thought in history" could not pass without mentioning this point.
"I've also heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy. After doing some research on what is believed to happen... I got to NLP. Programming the brain with a goal purpose, and the brain choosing all its options consciously or unconsciously to achieve that goal. It's not unreasonable."
Nanren also calmly explained.
Yun also gave his opinion.
"Sure, but it's like having seasoning alone without food"
"It's worthless without action."
Nanren nodded, agreeing on that. He was surprised for a moment, such a fluent conversation with Yun? And also it was definitely a nice discussion...
But now that there was nothing to distract him, those 'weird' thoughts came back to his mind. Worst of all, the subject he was talking about had given birth to a bad thought in his mind.
-To be continued-