What would be your approach, as an actualist, to such incidents?
Iâd approach it with no great concern and get back to enjoying this moment of being live. How might you approach it Kiman?
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Iâd also try to limit such reactions from occurring by not giving much importance to things. But I guess it is not possible to stop it completely before becoming free, because itâs highly inefficient to be as careful with a ball pen as we are with a laptop. Care given is proportional to the value we accord. And when something we value is endangered, instinctive fear runs through us.
Itâs more like â what does the fear do for you? It didnât prevent you from dropping the phone in the first place⌠after the phone was dropped, it doesnât do anything to un-do it. And being fearful of always dropping your phone would not be productive, it might help you not drop your phone in the future, but it happens so rarely, and really being at ease and relaxed is a much more efficacious way of not making mistakes.
In short the fear is totally redundant, so putting dropping the phone on an âit doesnât really matterâ basis (doesnât really matter I dropped it, will figure it outâŚ), will help relate to the world in a more happy and harmless way, and youâll find that as you are less fearful fewer things will go âwrongâ and youâll be able to better react when they do.
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Hi @Kiman,
The parallel between that feeling being linked to how much you (or any feeling being) value something is probably where to start looking at when considering âhow to approach itâ.
Obviously, our feelings do fluctuate with our values. Yet, as Claudiu pointed out, they obviously donât mean we wonât lose the thing of value, or have it back because of the feeling. Very curious situation really!
It does make me wonder about what use feelings ever were to anyone. I always tend to think that the affective system (to use the term from Rickâs thread) was a more effective way of storing social information than could be done via pure genetic instinct. I think it must be social information, because i canât see how it could be valuing the direct value of things, which could be programmed.
I have always used the example of the wishbone trapdoor spider i found on my front yard once; once a had investigated it (i had to search the internet), it turns out to be a fascinating little engineer! It gets its name from the âYâ shaped burrow it builds. One end of the âYâ is the trapdoor, the other an emergency room incase the burrow is flooded with water. It presumably has no emotions, it also does not have a brain. They have a thickening of nerves in the thorax which serves as a âbrainâ.
The point is, it âvaluesâ without feelings. It preserves itâs life pre-emptively through a clever engineering design.
In any case, the dropped phone was not designed via feeling. Itâs an example of engineering. So, to pre-emptively value ones phone, itâs best to have a good quality phone case. I recommend âotterâ cases, or my current one which is âpelicanâ case. In the 25 plus years i have owned and dropped phones, i am yet to break one. 
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Before smartphones were a thing, i had an amazing Motorola phone with a gortex covered, dust and waterproof body. I used to throw it on the concrete to impress my kids with how tough it was.
Interestingly, my three sons seem to regularly break phones because it is the fashion amongst their peers not to have phone cases. It could be said they value the social approval more than rhe phone. Yet, they are very distressed when they break yet another phone.
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