E M O T I O N S (33)

                      E M O T I O N S

Anger, sadness, love, etcetera… I feel like I could go on forever with a list of emotions yet those are the first three that come to mind. They come up naturally as an instinct due to circumstances of situations we might find ourselves in.  Or we can decide our actions in relation to who we might find ourselves with. Emotions are always in us just waiting for the right place right time to be seen.

I never thought about emotions being as complicated as they might seem. Some people could sit for hours and not feel anything while others can feel everything all at once. That’s the difference as well between someone showing empathy versus apathy. Empathy is more emotions and those who feel for others; whereas apathy is those who cannot feel emotions for someone else besides themselves. Apathy is a lack of concern towards others or you could say a lack of emotion. That they might understand the feeling more if they thought about the other person in the situation. 

Emotions also can allow us to hide. Hide from those feelings we might not be ready to face, or when certain feelings might be too much to deal with. Our connection to our emotions can be strong like a bridge that connects us to others. Yet that bridge is the most protected one of all. Our emotions can act as our shield, and they can allow all others to either see our true colors or to hide in plain sight. 

           Today we all wonder how our emotions play a game in our lives. Taking its turn with the dice, curious if it’ll score a big number or not. We cannot turn off our emotions no matter how much we might want to. They are what makes us all human after all. 

-JS