Emotional Things

Sometimes we see our emotions creeping up on us, sometimes they act independently. Sometimes we see our next thought coming, sometimes only our eyes can see. Humans act on a spontaneous rythum, keeping only one steady beat at heart; a heartbeat.

Sure, there are or feet that shuffle and scuffle the ground. But those movements can change. This then leads us to the question, what changes them. Well, thoughts in our brain. But we don’t have a brain beat, do we?

Well, lifes rythum is almost purely locical... even though logic doesn’t have a rhythm. Do you see the problem here? We’re running to a rythum with no beat. We have no pacing, we don’t know how fast to go.

But on the road, we have signs for speed limit right? And we’d use a GPS... or at least some sort of mental map to guide us. This is our intuition, our emotions about certain occurrences. Our “internal compass” if you will.

This intuition can sense things from a mile away, it will warn you about a new turn every time you get back on the road you started; every time you get on your feet. Some days, you won’t feel like driving. Some days, you’ll yell at everyone who gets in your way... but those traffic jams are lessons to be learned.

It’s your GPS’s way of saying to stop and take a break. That there’s too much snow downtown and it’s dangerous. That your schedule is so full that you have to go to one event (or zoom call as we say in 2020) in the midst of another.

Follow the bridges built of emotional things over the logical waters, and follow them continuously. Or set sail on a boat that follows the wind, not just the water. Take the steps on scary stones to carry yourself across the stream. I don’t dare say we should get rid of water, but it’s not the only thing.

This kind of feeds into the idea of being “right” or “left” brained, which I guess most of us kind of are. And as a society we tend to lean toward that heavily bound left hemisphere of ours. We then leave our right frame of mind feeling left out by only using half our heads.

For example, has anyone ever told you, “you’re so over sensitive!”, or “when you walk into work just put a smile on your face”? The prior of these is just plain out denying the validity of your emotional state, and the following is an example of that buzz word going around, “toxic positivity”.

Do your emotions ever just keep bubbling up, where you get upset about even the little things? I’m gonna bring this back to the analogy I was using before; this is you getting tired of swimming and screaming out for someone to save you before you drown. This is you just trying to stay afloat, but getting hit by waves. On the bridge, you can rest. It may creek or swing, or even terrify you to look down. But at least you’re not in that water, you’re finding the quickest way between two points isn’t always a strait line if there’s something underneath.

I’ll leave you here in saying, you don’t have to take my advice... especially if you’re enjoying your swim. But people aren’t fish, they can’t swim forever. And just like Einstein says not to judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, do not judge a person (including yourself) on their ability to swim an entire ocean... especially when there are bridges along the way.