Why we feel disgusted and what is to feel disgusted?
Humans are weird in a genius manner. We feel many things and we are unaware of the feelings. We should not be embarrassed when we are unaware of some particular thing. Before asking why we feel disgusted, we need to ask ourselves what does it mean to feel disgusted.
Let’s go from the top, what does it mean to feel disgusted? I don’t know what age of a person will be reading this. How many people of different age are going to read this but yeah what I know is whoever reading this is much more aware and wants answer. This is the beginning of self-awareness.
Criteria box just keeps on adding!
Now, taking a long breathe I would like to start coming to the point. We have our own hope box, belief box, expectation box, values box. All of these boxes are made up of wall called “criteria”. Those criteria are built from the society, from the people around us. We have been watching them since our birth. Whatever we have learnt is their contribution. Our “criteria” was not made with planning and analysis, it was made just like that. When we open our eyes in the morning we don’t choose what we will see; whatever seen is seen. Same like that our “criteria” was just built with whatever we saw. We had no any other option at that time.
With the time we keep adding more “criteria” to our boxes. Whoever comes to our life has to matchup the “criteria”. This “criteria” is actually a filter so that we come in contact with those people with whom we can share comfort zone. But Life has never been perfect; even a fairytale is not perfect sometimes. Though we have unknowingly build up “criteria”, we cannot judge everyone by a situation or a moment. From here, life brings twists. With one wrong judgement, our mental peace is gone. From here we start basic level of negative feeling. With time and contact with the ”out of the box” person, we keep reaching one more level up of negative feeling.
You may be thinking at worst case the negative feeling or emotion could be hatred. Beyond this no one could ever imagine the worst level of negative emotion/feeling. This is what most of the people are unaware with. I am talking about the word “disgust”. Yeah the word “disgusting” is the one more level on top of “hatred”. Let me explain you with a hypothetical situation, If a person has recently break-up and he/she accidentally met the ex, If the person doesn’t get disturbed much (here the scenario is: in case of moved on), it means the person just has hatred. If the person has not even a hatred in heart, the person could have called out and talked for a minute but the person has feeling of hatred now. The person doesn’t care with the presence anymore. Whereas if in the same scenario, if a person has feeling of “disgust” the person will react as if he/she has seen vomit. Some particular person’s attitude that doesn’t go with our ”criteria” box or the memories we created with such kind of person, is the reason we feel “disgust” and the intolerable reaction in such a scenario that we face is called “Disgusting”.
But if we begin to be conscious of ourselves, we can control what we should add in our "criteria" box and what to remove.
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