When Emotions Trump Logic

Has this ever happened to you? So caught up in your emotions that your logic no longer functions? Where your feelings decide and dictate what you do, rather than your logical and analytical side of you telling you what to do?

You hear your logical, reasonable side screaming at you. "Don't do it! You will regret that soon after!". No matter how loud it shouts, no matter how much more reasonable the logical way is, your emotion tends to and without failing, take you over.

This conflict between your emotional side, and your logical side is a biased civil war within you. Like a stacked deck, you always lose. The house always wins. No matter how much you plead, your logical side pleads, it doesn't matter; Emotions is the boss; the dictator. What it says goes. Without question, without reason, without hesitation.

A beautiful example of such a conflict is the ever so popular phrase "Love makes you do crazy things". Love, the emotion; while "crazy things" is the illogical, and unreasonable result.

Now comes the question of "controlling your emotions". Is this really possible? It seems like there are some people who are more capable of controlling their emotions than others are. They say "love is the most powerful emotion", would it be possible to control who, what, when, how, and why you love? If it is possible to control those aspects of love, then this brings up another question "What is true love?". If you are able to control who you love, how can it be true?

There is a measurement of how well you are able to control your emotions. Like IQ (Intelligence Quotient) there is something called EQ (Emotional Quotient) or it maybe known as EI (Emotional Intelligence). It is a measure of your "a self-perceived ability, capacity, or skill, to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups" (Wikipedia, Emotional intelligence).





Whatever... My emotions are getting the better half of me.