The damaging effect of being too emotional

The damaging effect of being too emotional

It is so unfortunate that even though we are considered to be the best of all creatures created by God, we tend to act like imbeciles. Despite carrying one of the most well-developed brains inside our skulls, we fail to utilise it in our daily lives and
let our emotions guide us. This in turn leads to chaos as emotions are the worst possible alternative for the work that the brain is meant to carry out.

We face various situations in our daily lives, some of which please us while others test our ability to understand and comprehend. It is in the latter situations that we tend to show off our animalistic side. Things happen that are more than just black and
white and demand a bit of understanding. However, rather than handling the situation calmly, we allow our emotions to take charge and jump to conclusions that are not even remotely close to reality.

There are times when someone does something that we deem as offensive and this leads to a relation of one-sided hatred taking birth. While the other person sits in confusion as they try to figure out what happened and why, it is only us who suffer due to
the hatred that we harbour inside our heart for that person. Rather than talking it out with the other person, we assume that the offensive act was committed by the other person with ill intentions and would only serve to aggravate the hatred that already
exists. Therefore, we stay at a distance from the person and keep hating him, silently praying to see him in the same pain that we blame him for giving us.

We keep thinking about the offensive act that the other person committed and keep feeling hurt as we never expected that person to ever stoop to such a level. This sense of betrayal angers us and closes the gates of happiness in our lives, making us hate
everything in sight.

It is only after allowing our brains to take charge the situation and truth begins to unravel and we begin to see the actual reality. Our assumptions were the only thing that was giving us pain and our hesitation to discuss it with the other person keeps
adding fuel to the misunderstanding and hatred.

It is best to keep our emotions aside when facing a situation where we feel that somebody has betrayed us or been selfish and insensitive. We cannot know what is going on in the other person’s mind and therefore we should give them a chance to speak out
and explain themselves. This not only allows us to retain peace of mind and stay clear of misunderstanding, but also allows us from straining relations with someone who really does care for us and never intended to hurt us.

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Posted by Muhammad Qasim Hassan on Dec 12 2011. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry