Serious and Trivial

There are serious things in life being trivialised.
There are trivial things in life being emphasized.

When the serious things are triviailised, it means we spare too little thoughts and efforts than we ought to.
When the trivial things are emphasized, it means we spare too much thoughts and efforts than we ought to.

The big question is WHY?

When we cannot and don't know how to handle the serious things.
And to compensate what we cannot, we shift our lack to the emphasizing of the trivial.
Emphasizing of the trivial is good distraction for self and also help us in the traction/ deception to others
Though we cannot handle the serious, but we can still look like we are dabbling in the "serious".

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Screwtape Letter #17

The woman is in what may be called the "All-I-want" state. All she wants is a cup of tea properly made, or an egg properly boiled, or a slice of bread properly toasted.

But she never finds any servant or any friends who can do these simple things "properly" because her "properly" conceals an insatiable demand for the exact, and almost impossible, palatable pleasures which she imagines she remembers from the past; a past described by her as "the days when you could get a good servant" but known to us as the days wen her sense were more easily pleased and she has pleasures of other kinds which made her less dependent on those on the table.