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Feelings: bane or blessings

Feelings: bane or blessings

Feelings: bane or blessings

As each of us knows every day brings with it its own problems and its own pleasures.  The group that captures our attention the most throughout the day determines if consider it a good day or not.  This rather arbitrary method of determination can in fact turn a great day bad with one turn of events. 

Subjective determinations are just that arbitrary, completely subject to our emotions and feelings of the moment regardless of any actual reality.  The problem is we like it that way.  We like having some decisions that are truly and completely based on how we feel.  Now we do not base the majority of our decisions on our feelings (or do we), but once every now and again helps us feel like we are in control (or so I am led to believe).

Feelings are amazing things; they promote chemical reactions in our bodies that drive us to actions or in some cases complete inaction.  Fear, love, anger, joy, hope, peace the list goes on and on, each emotion causes a reaction that adds flavor to our lives.  Like seasoning to a meal.  The right seasoning adds just that right touch to make a meal great, or just the right touch to make a good meal completely inedible. Unless it is made by your daughter, then it is still amazing.   

The simple facts are that while feeling can very quickly get in the way and create a very real mess, most of us wouldn’t like it any other way.  Otherwise, we wouldn’t put up with the amazing amount of stupidity that comes with each and every day.  Because it is those moments that when we look back are the moments that made the day worth remembering.  The moments that made that day different than all the rest, a spark of uniqueness. 

So yes, we rant and rave about the way feelings create bad decisions and in truth, they can and often do, but it is also those feelings that made the memories we very often cherish the most.  Enjoy yourself and try not to let your emotions make too many decisions but try to enjoy the ones they do.

Blessings!

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Pascal Derrien

1 year ago #6

Going with the feel is not a bad rational 

Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris

1 year ago #5

Greg Rolfe

1 year ago #4

Greg Rolfe

1 year ago #3

Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris

1 year ago #2

Very insightful, Greg. I'm wondering if refining those feelings (instead of just putting them in a silo, like many people do these days) would help make them better in what they do. Perhaps even a reliable tool in decision-making, given they reach intuition-like levels. As much as I value logic & reasoning, I find that refined feelings are probably a step or two beyond that. Then again, that's just a feeling I get on this topic! :-)

Ken Boddie

1 year ago #1

I believe, Greg, that one of our main challenges in life is to avoid letting our emotions rule how we do things and the decisions we make in life. Hopefully, as we mature with age, we learn to “count to ten” and think things through, rather than “leaping without looking”, acting irrationally “on the spur of the moment”, “going off half cocked”, and a heap of other similar old adages. When we “act while the iron is hot” this often means we are being ruled by our emotions rather than deferring to our thought processes. Then there’s, “Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread,” or is it, “paint the shed”? The following advice, which has been accredited to Winston Churchill, also comes to mind:

”Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

This, in turn, reminds me of the guy who had an irrational fear of elevators and escalators. Luckily he was able to ‘take steps’ to avoid them. 😂🤣😂

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