One thing which bounded in human’s soul is emotion. It’s about what they feel. It’s different when they climb to the peak of a mountain and work at their office. Either climbing and working have same condition: wasting the energy, but the feel or emotion is different! Some of them maybe love to waste their energy at office, but the others hate it. Some of them maybe love to waste their energy at the mountain, but the others hate it. Emotion is what make human different.
Is the emotion could be controlled? According to the Stoicsm view, human can control their emotion. When they trapped by the traffic, for
instance, they have some options: let the angry controlling them, or listen to
the relaxing music so they can enjoy the traffic. Of course, they who follow
the Stoicsm choose the second one. It caused by their inability to control the
traffic, they only can control their emotion.
Meanwhile, according to me, yes, emotion could be controlled,
but how it comes is another story. Emotion comes to the human unexpectedly. It couldn’t
be controlled. I can’t push the happiness to stay in my soul everytime.
Sometimes, when my friend joking me, I can stay cool. In another time, when
they joking me, sometimes I hope their mouth disappeared. So the emotion as well as the weather. I can’t
control how it comes.
Knowing how the emotion comes, it make me to act to the
other carefully. I should see how the situation is. I can’t do some jokings to
the other for free. If I joking to the friend who put on a gloomy face, he/she
might splash me. When I am on that
situation, I take the proverb which said, “Silent is gold.”
Yeah, the dangerous of emotion is, it can break the ties of
kinship. It can create the circles in human’s social life. The worst, emotion can
create the war. Maybe, the greatest story of world war is caused by the burning
emotion. They got the bad emotions and unfortunately they were not stoic. They use
their emotion to declare the war.
Chaplin was said that, “We think too much and feel too little.”
It said in his movie Great Dictator (1940). It was a satire to the leadership
of Hitler, when the humanity was forgotten. It guided us to use our emotion to
feel the sufferings, to feel humanity, to feel love. But, how Hitler’s feeling
looks like? How if his feeling is fulled by anger? In other word, if there is
someone who fulled by bad emotion, should I tell him/her to use the feeling
without thinking? Chaplin words has a good point, but sometimes human should
use their brain to think before they driven by emotion to do something bad.
If a thinker called a philosopher, someone who driven by
emotions is called impulsive. The impulsive people is choose to do “feel much and
think little”. When they feel angry, they can’t eat, sleep, or even buy
something clearly. When they need a pants, but the angry said that they should
buy a hat, they will buy a hat. The impulsive people let the emotions drive
them. Sometimes, I have become an impulsive too!
The bad side of become impulsive is showing the emotions. I
have heard that showing emotions could be showing the weakness. When the others
see my weakness, they could drive me. For the instance, a politician showing
his/her anger in a debate show, it will be an advantage for his/her opponent. The
audience will see the anger, and the politician will lost by one point. So,
showing the emotion to the other is like showing the weakness indirectly. That’s
why some public figure who understand about it, they keep their emotion into
their pocket and trying hard to be cool.
Of course, a psychologist or a yoga therapist, I don’t know how
it called, will say that always keep the emotions is a terrible lifestyle. It will
be affected to the mental health. Hiding the emotion is like saving poison in
the body. It could be a killer. So it has be to be removed. The emotions should
be distributed. If the question is “how”, my answer is it will be better if it
questioned to a psychologist, or a yoga therapist, I don’t know it called. However,
emotion is a complex problem.
Writing is one of solution of mine. I can express my
emotions into some words. In other side, I can’t write anything when my soul is
fulled by the bad emotions. I’d rather to look the stars which shinning in the
night sky. Then, when the bad emotions gone, I start to write, such as: “Emotion
is part of human and it should be accepted.”
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- Written by Len
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