For our joyful life Beware of the Cancerous  Identity Mechanism Every one of us has diverse identity components related to our native place, family, culture, heritage, skills and interests. Our joyful life depends on our awareness and nurturing the diversity in our identity. It is like preserving the biodiversity for the well being of our earth. The danger to our joyful life originates in an infection weakening the diversity and the cancerous growth of one or few emotion based identity components weakening the other components. To understand one such mechanism of infection, consider the following example.  Imagine that the number  10  expects the number 4 to fall at its feet as it is lower in value.  No wonder the same number 10 falls at the feet of the number 80 as it is higher in value.  The same number 10, without shame disrespect the 80 when it is permitted to fall at the feet of  400. The purpose of falling at the feet is to increase one's value thereby increasing the scope of more less numbers falling at the feet.  In fact those numbers are the human beings and the value represents their wealth and influence levels- weakening all other identity components in favor of wealth and influence. Any country/society that encourages the above mechanism will have to decay becoming a desert for creativity and good values. The resulting human beings will be like robots programmed to pursuit the wealth and influence sacrificing all good values at their disposal.' Can you be angry with Mathematics?'(post below) exposed the above mechanism.Also emotion will enslave reason - encouraging its misuse thorough terrorist avenues. The unfortunate consequence will be the weakening of the diversity of many identity components of the individual falling prey to emotion based groups, causing violence and disharmony - explained well in -  'Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny' by Amartya Sen The above unfortunate individual will consciously or unconsciously shelter increasing negative feelings and decreasing positive feelings. No wonder even in the midst of trees , birds, hills, rivers, etc , he/she , instead of enjoying the music and dance in nature, will be mentally more occupied with the thoughts induced by the cancerous dominant emotional identity component. Also such persons become the sources of infection to ruin a positive environment/country/society. Beware of such negative influences, if we need to preserve our sheltering of the good feelings for the joyful life. For our joyful life, we need to distant ourselves ( as explained in a post below) from the negative sources .