Thoughts vs. Feelings




I've been having a lot of thoughts lately regarding the distinction between thoughts and feelings. Lately, I've begun to regard everything on this earth as a mere interpretation of the brain.

Whether it be global causes or something that punctures my skin or what a person I talked to said to me. Everything is processed in our brain and we give it feelings and thoughts. 'Oh, I think that was rude', 'I feel sad today because of some bad news' and 'My shoulder hurts'.

I started comparing every existing factor in my life to a factor present somewhere else in the world. It is indeed all relative but that means there has to be more than one entity for a relationship to occur. That also means that I shouldn't feel a certain thing if I didn't find something in my existence to compare it with. Say, pain threshold. If I learned as a kid never to realize what is physical pain the way most people, could I have now replaced the feeling in my body to be that of pleasure?