Obvious but not Simple TRAP - II

Understanding the dynamics of feelings reveals us the details of our behavior. It leads to proper understanding of nature of free will. Everybody knows that our mind oscillates between different kinds of moods. Mood is nothing but a state of mind leading to particular set of desires. For example tired mood after 10 hrs of working will lead to desires like watching TV, chatting or sleeping etc. Jolly mood would lead to desires to doing something aggressively or playing games etc. The sad mood leads to desire just sitting or doing nothing. Happy mood leads to desires of talking, doing work more very curiously or simply enjoying something.

We do not have direct control over our moods. They just go on shifting from one mood to another. Normally moods change after every 2-3 hrs. The same mood will not continue. It will be followed by some other mood. There is a probabilistic pattern in which mood will be followed ahead by another. These probabilities differ person to person. It is exactly where we are different from each other. As described in above paragraph, in particular mood person does particular type of things. Some things are merely impossible. For example nobody will cry when they are in happy mood. What a person might do will also depend on the situation. For example, a person in a happy mood will make jokes or tell interesting stories when he is chatting with his friends in group. While the same person in the same mood will play very aggressively if he is playing cricket / football. So the set of things we actually do are dependent on 2 things - our mood and the situation. But point to note that given a particular mood and clear picture about situation, the set of things which the person will do is quiet predictable ! Think about it and search your own answer.

Exercise : Try to monitor your mood after every 2 hrs. Then try to correlate the things you are doing to your mood. May be you can write it down and make a table. Do this for many times, may be for many weeks. Try to see the correlation between mood, situation and your activity. Are there any patterns ? Why ?