Are emotions a good thing or a bad thing? People say that without emotions, we will all just be robots doing the same thing everyday. Is that really a bad thing?
There are two general types of emotions, to me at least. One type gives you feelings of happiness, pride, sense of achievement or in other words, makes you feel good about yourself. The other type brings you sadness, confusion, hurt, pain or to simplify makes you feel terrible about yourself.
Look at it this way, you get very happy because you pass your exams with flying colors. You go out and celebrate with your class, an hour later, you receive a text message saying that someone dear to you had just passed away. Your "feel-good" emotions are immediately taken over by one of pain and sadness.
Flip the situation around, you just broke up with your girlfriend of eight years. You are still in self denial mode and is finding hard to adjust to life without her. You then find out you have struck the lottery and is now $500 or $5000 richer. Are your bad emotions immediately taken over by feelings ecstasy or happiness? For some, maybe yes. For most, probably not.
With this somewhat unfair distribution of emotions, why should we feel so blessed that we are not robots? In life, there are probably more situations that are likely to make you feel bad, disgusted, sorrow than those that make you feel genuinely happy. And you know how the saying goes, "A smile can be remembered for a day, a frown keeps you thinking for a month." (Okay, I made that up.)
Think about it, without emotions, nobody gets hurt. Nobody has to lie anymore, crime rates will probably be down as there will no longer be crimes triggered by passion. And nobody has to hide their feelings anymore. How many times have you gone out with a smile that is actually hiding your sorrows? Why should people need to pretend to be okay when in fact they feel terrible? Have you ever seen people who are extremely happy but pretend to feel anguished? (If yes, stay away from them, they are probably insane.)
P.S. This is just a rant because I know there is no way of getting rid of a person's emotions if that person still wants to live, I am not an idiot, thank you very much. Do I sound like I am whining? Perhaps. Do I sound like I am feeling sorry for myself? Maybe. But mostly, it is because this post is sponsored by anger and hurt.
There are two general types of emotions, to me at least. One type gives you feelings of happiness, pride, sense of achievement or in other words, makes you feel good about yourself. The other type brings you sadness, confusion, hurt, pain or to simplify makes you feel terrible about yourself.
Look at it this way, you get very happy because you pass your exams with flying colors. You go out and celebrate with your class, an hour later, you receive a text message saying that someone dear to you had just passed away. Your "feel-good" emotions are immediately taken over by one of pain and sadness.
Flip the situation around, you just broke up with your girlfriend of eight years. You are still in self denial mode and is finding hard to adjust to life without her. You then find out you have struck the lottery and is now $500 or $5000 richer. Are your bad emotions immediately taken over by feelings ecstasy or happiness? For some, maybe yes. For most, probably not.
With this somewhat unfair distribution of emotions, why should we feel so blessed that we are not robots? In life, there are probably more situations that are likely to make you feel bad, disgusted, sorrow than those that make you feel genuinely happy. And you know how the saying goes, "A smile can be remembered for a day, a frown keeps you thinking for a month." (Okay, I made that up.)
Think about it, without emotions, nobody gets hurt. Nobody has to lie anymore, crime rates will probably be down as there will no longer be crimes triggered by passion. And nobody has to hide their feelings anymore. How many times have you gone out with a smile that is actually hiding your sorrows? Why should people need to pretend to be okay when in fact they feel terrible? Have you ever seen people who are extremely happy but pretend to feel anguished? (If yes, stay away from them, they are probably insane.)
P.S. This is just a rant because I know there is no way of getting rid of a person's emotions if that person still wants to live, I am not an idiot, thank you very much. Do I sound like I am whining? Perhaps. Do I sound like I am feeling sorry for myself? Maybe. But mostly, it is because this post is sponsored by anger and hurt.
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