01 1 / 2012
Trains of thought (emotion)
Emotions. As a boy, I wore my heart on my sleeve. Every emotion had to be expressed, every word had to be said, every feeling had to be heard and seen, my emotions controlled me. I grew up, I became wise, I watched others and analysed myself, I tucked my heart in my sleeve and there it has remained ever since. I have not lost passion, I have more passion than ever, I am not heartless, I can empathise better than most and I am not loveless as many can attest. I just learnt that harnessing your emotions helps you more than letting them free ever will, directing and channelling your emotion and twinning that with logic and rational will allow you to do more things than you’d ever be able to do if you purely lived off emotion.
I heard a quote once and I’m a great believer in it, the person said - “sometimes people put their hearts in the minds position”.
I don’t believe that anyone should ever abandon emotion altogether, rather they should just learn to understand their feelings before acting upon them, before allowing them to take paths that logic would chose against.
