Although despondency is a mortal sin, the feeling is familiar to almost everyone. Only children are spared from him. We will consider a verb that is organically connected with longing, sadness and other unchanging companions of human life. "Gnawing" is our object of study today.
Value
If you open an explanatory dictionary, then he will tell us what this word means. A person who has lived on Earth for a long time can himself give a definition, but we are not interested in the latter, accuracy is important here. We only want coined language. There are two of them in the explanatory dictionary:
- Gnaw, eating, biting the flesh with teeth.
- Torment, torment. The value is figurative.
The first meaning of the definition interests us little, because in the direct sense the word is almost never used. It can, of course, be argued that it is undeservedly forgotten. It is appropriate to use the word in this context: "The ball swallowed the chicken bone with enthusiasm."
The second meaning is more interesting, because it is associated with feelings such as envy, longing, regret for missed opportunities. After all, this is L.N. Tolstoy noted in Anna Karenina: happiness is indistinguishable, devoid of individual traits, while grief, problems, on the contrary, always stand out against the general background with their own characteristics. We continue the conversation about the verb "gnawing." This word is rarely used in speech, but it has synonyms.
Sadness, longing, sadness, despondency are his faithful companions
The reader probably thinks that he was in a branch of the kingdom of Hades, but no, we are still on Earth. However, here too it is full of phenomena, events that plunge a person into longing; she begins to torment and torment him with terrible unknown force.
Buddhism insists that negative phenomena are essential for reality, but positive ones are not. Happiness, joy - all this is good, but briefly and accidentally. Indeed, only one thing is suffering, since it has a true essence. All this is known by a more or less educated person. How does the above relate to the topic of our conversation? When something gnaws at us, it means that we turn to the root of life, the root of all existence. Therefore, you should not drive this state so directly . What can a person harass? Different states, but the main ones are these:
- envy;
- sadness
- yearning;
- unfulfilled hopes, plans, dreams.
Sometimes it’s nice to gulp. And to envy or cry over spilled milk, lamenting about hopes and dreams, is pointless. You can think as much as you like that a neighbor has a better car, but until a person changes his life radically, he will sigh for nothing. And it turns out that not all torment is equally useful for life, when longing gnaws - good, and when envy - bad. Envy is an insidious feeling that makes the body idle.
Synonyms
What words can replace the verb "gnawing"? These are those that are sometimes made in speech, found in the literature:
- to suffer;
- to be tormented;
- nibble;
- sharpen;
- to overcome
- to eat.
As you can see, there are few synonyms, but they are characteristic, and the last two verbs are almost forgotten by modernity, they are often found in Russian fairy tales. We note that the hero’s adventures begin with longing, implicit and vague desires. He did not sit still, he was not happy with life, and therefore launched events that became the subject of the story, and if he sat on the stove, then nothing would have happened.
Is it possible to get rid of this unpleasant feeling?
The question, of course, is interesting. You can’t get rid of it at all. Tides, lunar phases. In other words, different things prevail over a person, therefore he grieves in vain. But if you do not like longing, then you can ask yourself two questions:
- What have I done to change this?
- What can I do to change this?
Moreover, regardless of the answers, it will become easier for a person: he will either understand that nothing can be done, or he will take up plans to change his life. Then there will be no need to yearn, and once. Dale Carnegie argued that employment is one of the cheapest and most effective cures for neurosis, longing, and despondency. Readers now know what the word “gnaws” means.