emotion
Is there any limit to the extremities of emotion?
I wonder sometimes about that.
Having once fallen into the depths of apathy, I hold tightly to the personal belief that emotions are a very important part of living. They help to fill up the emptiness that can sometimes comsume us. They help to give meaning to the physical world around us. They give us strength, they throw us down, they help us to keep going when there seems to be no rational reason why.
However...they can also take over.
Love can wrap an individual's mind and heart so tightly in its grip that one can lose all rationality, and make poor decisions, lose track of priorities, and even lose one's life.
Happiness can fill up and indivdual's sight with only goondess, and make them blind to the troubles that may stalk them until it is far too late.
Sadness can drag an individual down into depths from which they may never return, and make them stop caring altogether about everything until destruction is imminent.
And then there's Anger and Hatred, a pair that are relatively one and the same. Hatred is perhaps one of the most subtle of emotions, and also one of the most powerful. Hatred can give immense amounts of strength, allowing a person to have enhanced strength in both mind and body. It can even be so powerful as to give a far more rapid period of healing that would normally be possible. Hatred can also breed itself. When one individual, or even a group, hates another, the hate can be reciprocated back upon the original party. When these two hatreds face off against one another, the grow stronger and stronger until conflict arises. This is how most conflicts begin, and such has been the case through most of history.
With all of these emotions, they can take over and cause disasterous events to occur.
Of course, as I said before, emotions are the things that, at least in my opinion, make life worth living.
So I guess it all comes back just to balance...but of course thats just my opinion.
I wonder sometimes about that.
Having once fallen into the depths of apathy, I hold tightly to the personal belief that emotions are a very important part of living. They help to fill up the emptiness that can sometimes comsume us. They help to give meaning to the physical world around us. They give us strength, they throw us down, they help us to keep going when there seems to be no rational reason why.
However...they can also take over.
Love can wrap an individual's mind and heart so tightly in its grip that one can lose all rationality, and make poor decisions, lose track of priorities, and even lose one's life.
Happiness can fill up and indivdual's sight with only goondess, and make them blind to the troubles that may stalk them until it is far too late.
Sadness can drag an individual down into depths from which they may never return, and make them stop caring altogether about everything until destruction is imminent.
And then there's Anger and Hatred, a pair that are relatively one and the same. Hatred is perhaps one of the most subtle of emotions, and also one of the most powerful. Hatred can give immense amounts of strength, allowing a person to have enhanced strength in both mind and body. It can even be so powerful as to give a far more rapid period of healing that would normally be possible. Hatred can also breed itself. When one individual, or even a group, hates another, the hate can be reciprocated back upon the original party. When these two hatreds face off against one another, the grow stronger and stronger until conflict arises. This is how most conflicts begin, and such has been the case through most of history.
With all of these emotions, they can take over and cause disasterous events to occur.
Of course, as I said before, emotions are the things that, at least in my opinion, make life worth living.
So I guess it all comes back just to balance...but of course thats just my opinion.