Getting Rid of Emotions

We all strive to be something better. Successful in a word but how do we go about it? Certainly, doing an action that gives results helps.

If you want to be a pro at basketball then it only makes sense to practice basketball.

But aside from this, we also think about our mindset. Our mindset or rather our internal mood or energy dictates how we approach it and even how consistent we can be about it.

One of the ways we poorly or instinctively think is removing our emotions from the equation.

We think as such, “If only my rational mind can exist without any emotions then I can be infinitely successful in all areas of life.”

We despise our emotions since it catches us off guard and mismanages life.

Speaking of which, we even have a common saying that roughly says, “Don’t let emotions get in the way of your decisions.”

I am not saying that emotions do not affect consequences negatively. If you hit someone when conversing since you got angry then obviously it’s stupid and of poor taste.

All those are 100% valid points to make but the problem is that, this so-called rational mode of ourselves is from a rose tinted glasses view.

You certainly hate the anxiety you face when making a presentation or doing something completely new which is again, valid.

But you should also realize that this anxiety probably helped your ancestor to survive off and allow you to exist.

After all, by being anxious and skeptical about new ventures in the jungle, he ended up coming out alive since he didn’t choose the riskier options present.

Emotions can be helpful and exist for a good reason.

Not to mention, negative emotions are perceived far more than happier ones which increases our survivability.

If an unfortunate incident happened in a vehicle accident, you’re likely to be hyper conscious of it and make an effort to not do it again and remember it for a very long time unlike your happy moments of graduating college and such.

That being said, there is a caveat that I indeed admit. Our modern life does not require as much emotions as it should require.

A simple exam in your high school that has no impact even on your university selections shouldn’t make you so anxious that your ancestor had when facing a leopard.

After all, in one situation, you write the exam again which takes barely any time of your life (probably a day) while another is a painful death.

If someone programmed our bodies, such a setting would not remotely make any sense.

Imagine turning up the volume (your emotions) of your TV to 100 whether you are a foot or twenty feet away.

We can only conclude that our bodies are deeply flawed and not adaptive as much as they should be.

Such high levels of emotions can only lead to unnecessary stress and worry that your body does not know it is unnecessary since it is the same for it.

Food for thought.