Thursday, May 28, 2009

If you can eliminate one emotion from the world, would you?

If you could eliminate one emotion from the world, would you? This is a million-dollar question. Some will eliminate the emotion "frustration" because they hate a world full of frustration and stress. They are those who seek a carefree, happy and simple life. Others will eliminate the emotion " jealousy" because they detest people who envy them. They even hate themselves for envying others as it makes them unhappy.

For me, I would rather not eliminate an emotion. I feel that all emotions - anger, frustration, happiness, jealousy, good or bad, makes us the person we are.

As a christian, I strongly believe that God has created us for a purpose, and gave us positive as well as negative emotions for a reason. Having anger and frustration, or even jealousy in us is his will for us. It is definitely beneficial to us in a way.

For example, jealousy can also make us improve. When we envy others for their good work, we will often find out what is so good about his work, learn the good traits of his work and do a work that is better. Jealousy may not be a bad thing if you see it in this way. It actually inspires and motivates us to do better and improve.

Another example is anger. If you your friend perpetually do something that is immoral and you keep silent about it, he will only become worse and worse. You will only be harming him. However, if you feel angry about it, it will actually prevent him from continuing such acts again. Anger has the power help someone else to turn for the better!

It is actually these emotions, not only positive ones like happiness and compassion, that makes us an all-rounded person, the person we should be.

Some may say that we should only have positive emotions to achieve a happy life, but I beg to differ. It is actually these little negative emotions, not only positive emotions, that makes us the special person we are and brightened up our life.

1 comment:

Eumenthol said...

Yes Jonah I cannot imagine what will one become he or she has one emotion less.

It will be like..a robot who do not know how to get angry no matter how hard you work it? or a puppet who do not feel frustrated not matter what you do to it ; or an insensitive person who will not know how to feel painful when you hurt him emotionally.

The key is not to 'eliminate' one emotion , but how to manage your emotion well and be a postitive and balanced person.