Of Emotions

"Life would be unbearably bland if we had no enemies on whom to waste our efforts and energy"

Do you remember the time when we were younger, how parents reprimanded us for misbehaving? Well even now we have people telling us how to behave. I mean, don't we already know how to behave? Yes, we do. Its actually the execution which is the problem, not absence of knowledge. 

My husband is very verbal with his emotions, be it complimenting someone or criticizing something. Most of the time when he gets upset he reacts irrationally sometimes a bit too aggressively. I keep telling him to relax and take his mind off it but that rarely happens. But to reflect upon it, that is the way he is designed. I am sure he knows and never intends to be disrespectful. 

Emotions are necessary to formulate ideas and get the energy to execute them. None of us are reasonable enough not to get angry or upset when something discourteous happens around or to us. Small daily emotions are not rational but we need them to function properly. We are designed to respond to hostility with hostility. 

Nature developed our emotions over millions of years of evolution and as a result, our emotions have the potential to serve us today as a delicate and sophisticated internal guidance system. Our emotions alert us when natural human need is not being met.  

So every time we get high on our emotions, it should be free of guilt, as the system is meant to divert our energies in the required direction. So what if someone else gets the brunt of it!