How to understand that you have a rotten soul. What does the term “rotten people” mean? Who is called a rotten person? “Who are you?!”

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Stupid, you didn't even try to escape. But you had no idea how tightly I shackled your mind in my chains, how quickly and imperceptibly I tamed and tamed it. It is unwise to run from the future; it is always ahead anyway. It’s stupid to deceive the past; it still remembers everything better than you. I thought you had a mental disorder or worse - schizophrenia, don’t worry, it always feels like this when someone other than you is delving into your head. Just don’t worry, I’ll try to sort through your thoughts and memories more carefully, I’ll try not to seriously hurt your already battered psyche.

Now it seems to you that you are running along a long corridor, there are many doors and dim, cold electric lights are on. You are afraid that one of the doors will open and you will not be able to bear being taken away or ending up in a maze. I understand that it is very difficult when your own mind becomes someone else’s. I'm sorry, but I can't get you out of this nightmare, you can only run on, and hope that you will see the light at the end of the tunnel, and believe that it will be salvation. It’s a pity, but I can’t even pray, because no one will listen to a creature like me. There were too many lies for my prayers to be believed, too often I denied Him to ask for help. I silently sit next to your bed and look into your open but completely empty eyes. I'm scared. It’s scary that I did this to you, even if inadvertently, but it doesn’t matter, my fear cannot be compared with yours. And my eyes, reddened from tears, should not touch anyone, should not evoke sympathy, only disgust and anger. Looking at me there should be only one desire... to kill, to kill mercilessly... Someone, not knowing the truth, may ask: “Why?” But it’s better to remain silent about this, this truth is not worth another soul...

How wrong you were to trust me, but how irresponsible I was when I opened up to you. Only I should have lived in this darkness, but you so temptingly offered help, this sweet path of salvation. I tried to resist all those human beings that remained, but the thirst to see suffering took over, I so wanted to share this fear with someone.

Doctors long ago diagnosed him with schizophrenia. But I don’t believe them, that’s what they call everything that they can’t understand, control, much less treat. They simply isolate you and leave you alone in this horror, they don’t care what you feel, but looking into their eyes, you feel a repulsive coldness, and desperately understand that they have not considered you a person for a long time. You probably weren’t prepared, you weren’t taught how to react, that you don’t need to talk, listen and believe. And you so wanted to help, to bring everyone out of the darkness, to save. You thought that you could endure this horror, drive out these “diseases” like demons, you thought that with sincere conversation, kind, shining eyes and an irresistible smile, you would save fallen souls. You did worse, worse for yourself, you ruined your life and released this evil from me.

By killing me, by killing everyone there, you would have brought much more benefit to everyone. And you showed compassion, loved something that no one should have loved. So naively you believed that love would awaken reason in me, would awaken a person.

Now I’m sitting on the floor and I smell your pain, so strong, pungent, sickly sweet, warm and thick. I’m so desperate to fight this that now I can’t even stop everything. Just take and destroy this evil, this vile, viscous creature - yourself.

Instead of snow, it would be better if rotten people melted before our eyes.

A rotten person as a personality quality is a tendency to exhibit internal decay, moral decay, and personality degradation.

The student asked the teacher: - You are so wise. You are always in a good mood, never angry. Help me to be like that too. The teacher agreed and asked the student to bring potatoes and a transparent bag. “If you get angry with someone and harbor a grudge,” said the teacher, “then take these potatoes.” On one side, write your name, on the other, the name of the person with whom the conflict occurred, and put these potatoes in a bag. - And it's all? – the student asked in bewilderment. “No,” answered the teacher. You should always carry this bag with you. And every time you are offended by someone, add potatoes to it. The student agreed...

Some time passed. The student's bag was replenished with several more potatoes and became quite heavy. It was very inconvenient to always carry it with you. In addition, the potatoes that he put in at the very beginning began to spoil. It became covered with a slippery nasty coating, some sprouted, some bloomed and began to emit a sharp, unpleasant odor. The student came to the teacher and said: “It’s no longer possible to carry this with you.” Firstly, the bag is too heavy, and secondly, the potatoes have spoiled. Suggest something different. But the teacher answered: “The same thing happens in your soul.” When you are angry or offended at someone, a heavy stone appears in your soul. You just don't notice it right away. Then there are more and more stones. Actions turn into habits, habits into character, which gives rise to fetid vices. And it is very easy to forget about this burden, because it is too heavy to carry with you all the time. I gave you the opportunity to observe this whole process from the outside. Every time you decide to be offended or, conversely, offend someone, think about whether you need this stone.

A rotten person is influenced by the energy of ignorance and degradation. His soul is defiled by vices. Moreover, if she is freed from the conditioning of negative personality traits, she will exhibit qualities familiar to us: eternity, knowledge and bliss. A rotten person should be treated as a soul mate, without pride or arrogance in the heart. In the millions of lives we have lived, who we have not been. They were rotten, ignorant, and degrading. And they were lying in a puddle, in the mud, in a word, there was nothing special to be proud of.

A rotten man is a man with gangrene. Popular wisdom says: “The word is rotten from the rottenness of the heart.” When we say: “This is a rotten person,” those around us perceive such a characteristic as a warning about possible betrayal, meanness, and “scamming” on his part. A rotten person is trash, he is unreliable and dishonest. He may look good on the outside, but he is rotten on the inside. You touch it and only all the abomination and vileness will come out. The great William Shakespeare wrote: “What is rotten cannot be touched.”

Take rotten fruit for example. Outwardly, he may look like himself, you can’t tell him apart without looking closely, but the internal structure has already been lost. As soon as you press lightly, it immediately becomes deformed and emits a disgusting smell.

A girl with white bows came to the market. She is holding a large teddy bear in her hands. The girl walks between the counters and looks at the goods. The assortment is normal - vegetables, fruits, herbs... Only the quality is strange. Tomatoes, shriveled and sometimes pickled, lie in an indistinct heap. Overripe bananas burst and ooze black mucus. The apples, completely wormy, turned gray from beatings. And everything around is also touched by damage and rot.

Sellers don’t give a damn about this - they stand, invite customers, praise the product and swear among themselves. By the way, only one of the buyers at the bazaar is a girl with bows. The girl gets tired of looking at this disgrace, and she climbs onto a pile of empty boxes. “End this rotten bazaar!” she shouts at the top of her lungs. The hubbub at the market immediately subsides. All the sellers look at the girl with the teddy bear, look with silent admiration and hope, as they look at miracle workers and prophets... In the ensuing silence, the girl slowly and solemnly raises the toy above her head. - Bear. Plush. BOO. Inexpensive!

A rotten person is devoid of an inner core; if he faces the challenges of life, he begins to fall: he will buy, sell, buy and sell again. By his actions he causes disgust and a feeling of disgust. In a word, on the outside there is a man, but on the inside, under pressure from the outside, he is a rotten thing.

In Panama they say to such people: “Your soul smells bad.” Fazil Iskander in the book “Sandro from Chegem” writes: “A rotten man does not smell himself.” He shits on the sly for any reason, is a hypocrite, shows deceit and treachery, corruption and lies, cynicism and selfishness, sycophancy and flattery. In other words, Judas, who will always betray you for 30 pieces of silver.

You can change your face and appearance, but it is impossible to fundamentally change a rotten soul for the better. A fish rots from the head, but a man rots from the soul. Communicating with a rotten person is as absurd as eating only rotten fruit.

One Woman really loved the warmth, the sea and tender, juicy, pink peaches with delicate fluff on the barrels. One summer, having saved up some money, she got ready to go on vacation. A woman lived far away, in the Urals; it took almost three days to get to the sea. I had a great rest, swam, tanned, and when leaving, I decided to treat myself and bought a whole box of ripe peaches. She travels on the train, dreaming of how at home, slowly, she will begin to eat her incomparable fruits. I looked into the box, and one began to rot. What to do? It's a pity! And the Woman decides to eat him. He goes further - another one has gone bad! She ate that too. And then another, and another... As a result, having reached the house, she made a conclusion for herself: “I ate a box of rotten peaches!”

Petr Kovalev 2016

There is such a popular wisdom: the word rotted from the rottenness of the heart. On the one hand, the meaning of the proverb is clear. The word “rotten” speaks for itself; no further explanation is required. And just once again you are amazed at how subtly, succinctly and accurately everything is noted. On the other hand, it is interesting to “get to the very essence”, to figure out what “rotten” is and who is called a rotten person...

Dictionary

In search of answers to pressing questions, you must turn, first of all, to yourself. We will return to this later, but now let’s head to the explanatory dictionary. What will he tell us about the lexical unit “rotten”? Will you give me a helping hand in understanding the phrase “rotten people”?

So, according to the “Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language” edited by Ozhegov, the adjective “rotten” has several meanings. The direct meaning is that which has succumbed to the process of rotting, has become musty, spoiled, decaying. Anything can become rotten: apples, fallen leaves, and threads. The list can be continued indefinitely, since everything material is not eternal and sooner or later perishes. The second is damp, deprived of sun and heat, causing various ailments. Examples include the following phrases: rotten weather, rotten November, rotten water. And finally, the last one is a figurative meaning, according to which the lexeme we are interested in means absence, loss of the inner core, immorality, depravity. It is in such combinations as rotten people, rotten heart, rotten soul, rotten blood that the secondary meaning appears.

Bible

What do other sources of information say about this? The Brockhaus Biblical Encyclopedia, one of the most serious reference publications on biblical studies, provides the following material. Jesus asks his disciples to beware of false prophets, for a good tree cannot bear rotten fruit, any more than a rotten tree can bear good fruit (Matthew 7:17). However, a person in faith can sin if he allows “rotten words” to come out of his mouth. Only a good word has the power to bring grace to those who hear (Eph 4:29). In other words, a rotten person is a false prophet who preaches the truth for the sake of his vanity and self-interest. Truth of this kind cannot bring good, not for the speaker himself, not for those who listen to him. She can only poison.

Parable

And now a parable: how can we live without it? After all, a good parable opens your eyes to what just a second ago seemed ordinary or, conversely, obscure. And she does it simply, easily and beautifully. Let him tell us who these rotten people are.

So, the first parable. One day a student came to his teacher for advice: what he needed to do in order to be just like him - wise, always in harmony with himself and the world. The teacher readily agreed to help him and asked him to bring a bag and potatoes.

If you offend someone, get angry with them, or harbor a grudge, take one potato and throw it into the bag. And do this every time at the slightest conflict.

And it's all? How can such absurdity help me in such a great cause? - the student asked in bewilderment.

No,” the sage hastened to explain, “you must always carry this bag with you.” The student agreed.

Heavy burden

Time has passed. Unfortunately, the bag was full. It became difficult and inconvenient to always carry it with you. And those potatoes that were thrown at the very beginning began to rot and were already emitting an unpleasant smell. What to do? The student came to the teacher again. But this time with indignation. The sage calmly listened to him and said: “But the same thing is happening inside you. You just don’t see, you don’t notice how much heaviness is in your soul, and how your misdeeds gradually turn into fetid vices. A rotten vegetable is a rotten person. I I gave you the opportunity to observe this process from the outside.”

Two lakes

And here is another one - no less interesting and no less instructive.

A long time ago, two underground sources gave birth to two beautiful reservoirs. But everything flows, everything changes, and the water kept coming and going. And then the day came when they needed to think about their future fate. God asked them to choose one of two options. Either decrease in size, but at the same time become deeper, or, conversely, spread widely, but be small.

Two lakes thought about it and decided as follows: one will be shallow, but wide, so that a bird can see it from the height of its flight, and the other, sacrificing its size, will retain its depth and purity. Well, as we decided, so it happened.

Tests

The first reservoir enjoyed its grandeur. After all, so many birds, so many animals came to drink with him. The second one became so small that finding it among the dense greenery was not easy. However, the time has come for the great solstice. The water in the huge but shallow lake became cloudy and covered with greenery and slime. Every now and then she smelled of rot. Every living thing turned away from her. The water in the small but deep lake was not afraid of the hot sun, accepted its rays with grace, and became even more pure, transparent, and crystalline. And no matter how difficult it was, all those who suffered found their way to it.

It is not wonderful weather, but the scorching sun - a real test that reveals the true essence of things: the rotten quickly rots, the pure is cleansed.

What follows from all this?

One thing follows: a person with a rotten soul is rotten, unreliable, rotten, gloomy. But it's hidden deep inside. It seems that no one will ever get it, see it or even guess about the possible foulbrood. After all, on the outside everything is wonderful, correct, beautiful, like a ripe, rosy apple in a picture. However, just standing there, you immediately feel the taste of rot. And it can be even worse - you just need to touch it, and it will disintegrate, crumble, crawl away. As Shakespeare wrote: “What is rotten cannot be touched.” However, not only the great English poet wrote about such people. Many writers make statements about rotten people. For example, Oscar Wilde devoted an entire work to this topic - “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, which tells how the image of a young man from high society took upon himself all the vices of a rotten soul. The face in the portrait was distorted, covered with ulcers and moss, but Dorian himself was still young, charming, and handsome.

It is impossible not to mention a quote from another Englishman - Jack London. He said that there are a great many rotten people in the den of traders, and it is impossible to preserve their moral health among them. They are corrupting. Everyone has only a stomach, and their spiritual needs are like an amoeba. This is what a rotten person means. Perhaps this is the most complete characteristic.

Is it possible to avoid meeting such individuals? First of all, you need to start with the small and most difficult thing - watch yourself, your thoughts, feelings, desires, words, actions. Every time I stop and ask myself if there is any rottenness in my actions. And then look around, listen to others and even sniff. After all, rotten people smell bad. And as Fazil Iskander noted, they don’t feel their own smell at all.

Ecology of life. Psychology: She - the soul - does not immediately rot. At first, a scratch or wound, if small and insignificant, will heal and heal on its own. But if it was deeper and remained untreated, then an infection has already developed

Our body is an amazing mechanism. How everything is thought out, and how amazingly everything works in it!

Our body is also an excellent illustrator of how a less visible, but even more amazing phenomenon works - the human soul.

It is by using examples of the functioning of the body that we can very clearly explain to the client what can also happen to his soul.

Notes from a psychologist

But despite clear examples and conversations about psychosomatics, we, I dare say, pay little attention emotional health.

After all, you must agree that if you experience pain, damage something, get hurt, or encounter a physical injury, you will have no doubt that the scratch or wound needs to be treated, otherwise infection may begin and it will rot.

We know that the injury must be examined, and the cause of the pain must be sought without delay, so that the acute stage does not turn into a chronic one.

Despite the fact that the psychological dynamics of the disease are identical to the physical, we are not inclined to approach the process of healing the soul as seriously, much less prevention.

And I wish, you know, that we had morepsychological hygiene.

To begin with, simply more information about mental disorders, about what manifestations should ring alarm bells for us, and then more knowledge about providing ourselves with first psychological aid, and as a result of awareness - more openness to the fact that in this area contact professionals.

Because first, ignorance, then, inability to provide oneself with psychological help, and even more so, lack of openness and complexes regarding receiving professional help lead to a disastrous result - the soul begins to rot.

This is without excessive pathos and drama. This is a real fact of life.

She - the soul - does not rot immediately.

At first, a scratch or wound, if small and insignificant, will heal and heal on its own. But if it was deeper and remained untreated, then an infection has already developed. If the infection was ignored, then the infection process went further - and this process, believe me, already interferes with the life of not only its carrier, but also the people around him.

Let's look at this whole picture using a specific example from a person's life.

Let's say, there lived a boy named Gleb. He was born into a decent family, but his parents were busy people and worked a lot.

As a teenager, Gleb began to get involved in football and spend more and more time with those guys who shared this hobby. And so, at training matches, for reasons unknown to him, they began to leave Gleb on the bench, and then, due to his “undertraining,” he did not take part in the decisive games. This hurt the boy very badly - there was acute pain inside.

Then, at 13, he could not clearly identify this pain. But as a child, he experienced a similar experience from time to time, when his parents said that they were busy and at the moment they did not have time to sit with Gleb for a long time at his game or lessons. Even then the boy experienced this painful feeling - a feeling of REJECTION.

Gleb had a closer relationship with his godfather and his wife than with his parents. This family made him feel valued and listened to. But he saw them infrequently, this communication was rare and a kind of delicacy, so he also did not expect to express his experiences in these relationships.

So in this case, there was no one to talk to about football - after all, the parents, as always, are busy. This time he “swallowed” the pain of being rejected by his comrades; the wound in his soul healed over time.

The guy, already a student, struck up friendships with guys from the university. The friendship was developing well, only recently he began to notice that some friends began to avoid him more and more often, and recently they did not invite him at all to a common party that they had planned together the day before. And here it is again, the familiar feeling of rejection... Painful, caustic, disgusting.

I would like to somehow ignore it, but it turned out to be impossible to overcome this feeling - it was deeply embedded and reminded me of itself very persistently. It felt like a deep hole had been drilled into my soul and left open and unprotected.

Along with this pain of rejection that accompanied Gleb, came the consequences of an untreated and untreated wound - more and more anger and resentment towards those who rejected him began to appear in his soul. Simply put, the anger is real at those who treated him unfairly.

Of course, I would like to pour out this feeling on the offenders, but they were not around. Therefore, anger and anger were directed towards oneself.And as this anger was suppressed inside or expressed in self-flagellation, it seemed to Gleb more and more that he himself was to blame for what was happening. “There is something wrong with me,” he thought, “if I am constantly rejected.”

And then a completely logical continuation was that The guy's self-esteem has dropped to zero. Now it was almost impossible for him to believe that he was “normal”, that he was interesting and that his social circle would expand. After all, all his experience until today spoke of the opposite.

In the life story of our hero there are many other facts confirming the occurrence of consequences from an untreated and neglected wound. Namely, an unexpected and inexplicable dismissal from work, as well as a seemingly promising relationship with his beloved girl, who eventually left him.

Rejection seemed to be on his heels.

The pain only got worse.

And in fact, unbearable suffering after yet another experience of rejection led Gleb to the psychologist’s office.

At the time of his request for help, it was no longer just a bleeding wound, but a specific injury that prevented him from fully functioning and continuing to live.

After all, rejection, unresolved and prolonged, also has such a consequence as insulation , when there is no longer any faith left that you will not be rejected again.

It - isolation - drives a person into a blind corner - it seems that you need to go and communicate, you want relationships and socialization, but this traumatic experience does not allow you to go beyond yourself. Isolation only gets worse, and in this state a person no longer allows people to approach him who would like to build a relationship with him that is the opposite of rejection.

What could Gleb do in the early stages of the process, when the first traces of rejection made themselves felt, when the same scenario was repeated?

The very first thing the most important thing to do isdon't ignore. Don’t say to yourself, “Okay, it happens,” don’t shift responsibility for the feelings that are choking you inside onto someone else, but accept them and try to figure it out. Ask yourself the right question: “Is it about me or is it about friends who, for their own reasons, did not want to communicate?”

Like this basic self-analysis and self-awareness could already help.

It was possible to prevent the wound from festering by resorting to first aid in the form of a disinfectant and a protective plaster.

And such, in the case of Gleb, could be communication with his loving and accepting godparents. This is a way out of isolation and choosing a vulnerable position towards a new relationship, where there is an opportunity to experience acceptance rather than rejection.

In each specific case of psychological trauma, or ill health in general, from a wound to an advanced illness, the approach, of course, will be individual.

The help that a person can give himself will also come from context, personality characteristics and life history. Self-awareness therapy is important - understanding myself regarding what and why I feel, why certain incidents occur in my life that turn into trends.

This self-awareness and analysis of the state of your soul will already be of great self-help.

And then, if this is not enough and it is still difficult to figure it out alone, do not be afraid to open up to someone who can help you get out of the consequences of a neglected, untreated and once unhealed wound.

If our souls are well-groomed, believe me, our body will follow this state!

Life flows and spills out from the inside - out. And not the other way around. What a person has inside will always be reflected in his external actions, behavior and attitude.

Take care of your soul, monitor its health - in fact, it is this that determines the entire quality of your life!



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