Envy, Anger and Annoyance...
 

...Has anyone else found that these emotions are less potent since the experience of P.A.D.?

I have, and If I ever start feeling annoyed or angry I come out of it very quickly now. It's a good thing but it all stems back to Avatar ^_^

~Skxawng

I agree, I am able to come out of those emotions much more quickly. However, there are a few people on other forums I am on that envoke envy and anger in one, and just anger from stupididty from the other. LOL

Edit: and I am a nice guy, its pretty hard to get on my bad side or really piss me off :)

I really don't think that this happens to me as well, but I can say one thing for sure: Avatar made me more aware of "the others", I mean someone that looks and/or behaves differently than me. If you learn to respect the others they will respect you as well, and you will feel more at peace with everything around you. Obviously this has to be a mutual relationship, but it has to start somewhere.

This is one of the things that this wonderful movie taught me.

Anger most of all : I realised what are we becoming, that's our future. I can see the greed of some people who are living nowadays, people who'll kill, destroy, anything to get some money

I have as well, although it's still hard when I'm driving. I'm not a happy driver all the time lol

I definitely agree on the anger part of it. I used to get mad at a lot of little things. Now, I start to feel it come on, but it's really easy to just let it go. I had PAD in a severe way for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure exactly how the two are related, but they clearly are.

This, drivers are stupid! I can imagine even more so when on a bike and they seem oblivious to the fact that you are on the road with them! LOL

I used to get angry quite often, I don't anymore. This is good, very good only.

I agree , somehow I try to filter out more of the positive things in my life , I'm not anymore the irritable little devil as I was some time before , feels alot better ^__^

*High Five* to you all then :)

~Skxawng

I think of PAD as a manifestation of existential depression. Based on the ages of people here I spent a good part of an entire lifetime in that state many years ago. When you come out of it you grow immensely. It is a big step up the ladder of enlightenment. You become much more secure and your old insecurities tend to be lessened. At this better place you can have better control over your negative emotions.

At least that's how it worked for me. I hope the same happens to others.

Oh yea I still get pissed off and annoyed, just not like I would in my old life. These days I prefer to help others up that ladder.

While I drive, I started saying "Kä, vrrtep!" to everyone who doesn't move when he (or she) has to do that :P

Envy is still the same as always, it's just directed at Jake now :P
As for anger and annoyance, I still reach them as easily, but they probably aren't as bad as they used to be.

I have too.

My PAD was full of disappointment in humanity, but it made me realize, that just because we're going towards our own destruction it doesn't mean I should not enjoy, and let everyone else enjoy the beautiful life we have. :)

If only we had more Iknimaya's :p

~Skxawng

Same, I refuse to throw away anything I can recycle. Saving energy etc is becomming a bit of a compulsion :p

~Skxawng

I generally recycled when I could, but I've been a lot more aware of and careful about what I throw away since Avatar.

Same here. ;)

I have been a little uptight lately, but thats probably because i've been tired lately... after seeing Avatar I have been in a upbeat happy mood, or somedays I might be in a downed mood lately... I fear my P.A.D might be coming back, when I first experienced Avatar my P.A.D. was luckily very very minimum

Yea to be honest my small (but not short) experience with P.A.D. I would welcome again but looking at my post last night I think it was because of the way I felt how the AF were going... But now that I'm here I couldn't be happier

In my case it has returned couple of times. The last time was the last saturday. I felt _so_ worthless going the same way the rest of the humanity is going (=towards it's destruction). But now when it's gone, i feel this Post Depression Happiness again lol. (I haven't posted much this week. More sports, less computer haha)

Even though it feels like PAD always makes me a better person, for now on I try to avoid reaching depression that bad level. It wasn't fun ..

I have certainly found this myself, unless it's a person or situation who has a tendency to bring about those emotions very strongly in me already. Most of the time I found that I quickly say to myself "Why am I really upset about that? Does it matter? No, not really." and totally chill out and try to enjoy the rest of my day.

Also, my PAD was definitely along the lines of being disappointed with our society and how far we've come. A lot of the time I just observe people (social dynamics of being 'cool,' drinking, partying, buying expensive cars, sex, etc) and I can't help but think about how silly and unfulfilling all those things seem now.

I say it's a change for the better.

^This.

While I wasn't generally an angry person before, i'm even less so after Avatar. If anything, i've become too soft. Almost a romantic, completely in love with the world and all my emotions. :D

Just because you are slower to anger it does not necessarily make you soft. I have worked on my anger for a long time. I pretty much only get worked up when the situation deserves it. Sometimes anger is the correct response, but most times it is counterproductive. I prefer serenity and tranquility whenever I can get them.

This is true. Don't get me wrong, I still get angry but it takes a whole lot more to do so then it did before, which in my view is a good thing.

I used to have a lot of anger problems, years ago. I solved them, now it's fairly difficult to actually make me really angry, but I still get just as angry as I used to. The only real exception is when it comes to my friends and family, who I will be ready to defend instantly if I need to.