This Word Is Loaded
Nice little word here, it covers a lot of ground. Highs, lows and everything in between. Everything we feel describes an emotion. There are over 3000 words in the English language that describes our emotional feelings. Three thousand! Yet there are really only a few main emotions; surprise, fear, love, joy, anger and sadness are the most common. There are actually emotions that there is no English word that describes it. Anger is the only emotion that there is an English word that describes all the feelings associated with it. There are so many different words to describe our emotions because we keep trying desperately to be able to try to describe how one feels with words. When someone is angry in any sense of the word, our expressions and actions pretty much says it all, no need to try to verbally say it.
If someone is really depressed and wants to die, is it because they simply can no longer handle their emotions? The feelings cause emotions that become overwhelming and they just want it to stop. Another reason may be, because they feel nothing at all. What dictates our ability to feel and control our emotions? Why is it, some people are not as able to accept or contain emotions? Some seem to have no trouble at all. I know there are times I simply can’t contain how I feel. I’ll do a good job of hiding how sad I am, until someone asks me to talk about it. Then tears will begin to start forming. Even when I try really hard not to cry, I can’t stop it. Even though I know, the little guy, named Jack, is going to pop up out of the box any minute, I’ll still jump when he does. Is there such a thing as being too emotional? Can someone have too many emotions going on at once? If so, is there anything that can really be done about it? Are drugs the only answer?
Emotions and IQ
Have you ever tried to reason with yourself about an emotion you may be having? Take “love” for instance. Have you ever tried to talk yourself out of loving someone? Have you ever told yourself over and over, you have nothing to fear, yet your instincts tell you to run and the fear is still there? I have to wonder if people who go through a lot of emotional turmoil or excitement have more emotions or less? Maybe it’s all part of our intelligence. After all, intellectual complexity goes hand in hand with emotional depth. It’s a fact, that gifted or highly intelligent people, are very emotional creatures. Is it because their reasoning and instincts are emotionally engaged? A gifted pianist can seem to project emotion into a score they may be playing. I know that with me, I get more emotional when I feel I am just for my emotional state. I completely understand why I am am angry or joyous. Therefore, I am entitled to feel all of the feelings that the emotion has to offer, that relates to the situation that brought on the emotion.
Conclusion
This could go on and on. The bottom line is, emotion is really only what you yourself know it to be. Someone can only relate to an emotion and how it may feel. There are no words that can truly describe emotions, you can only describe a feeling. What kind of emotional impact a feeling has on someone is theirs and theirs alone. How that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach feels or the euphoric feeling you get when your in love feels, is only something you know. Nobody else knows exactly how it feels to you. They may be able to relate to a feeling they may have felt, but was it really the same? I have desperately tried to put my emotions into words that can describe how I’m feeling, but I can never seem to be able to do it. When I read what I wrote, it makes perfect sense to me, because I can relate to how my emotion is affecting me. When someone else reads it, they can only relate to how they would be affected or how they might feel in the same situation. This most likely is not even close to what your emotion may be or the affect it having on you.
We are all individuals, something quite simple such as a friendly gesture from a stranger, can bring on many different emotions for different people and perhaps no emotion at all for some. Be kind to one another, respect the emotions of others, just as you wish others to respect your emotions. We can’t please everyone, but we shouldn’t keep going around insisting that everyone has textbook emotions. What’s a big deal to me, may be meaningless to others. I can respect that, but they also have to respect my emotions too.