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Emotions are seen to be a weakness to many people. Those people will usually make decisions through emotions. When this is done it is seen as a weakness because your emotions may see something else to do which, which may be wrong for that specific situation.
The people who can block their emotions will have less of a chance to do this type of improper decision-making. They will be deciding the decisions through the facts and knowledge/experience that they have experienced. Also if a person were blocking their emotions, during a physical fight, any pain that the person would receive would not be able to make them cry. The pain that the person would have due to the fight wouldn't be able to make the person cry because the person would not have the emotional need to do so. If there were people around during this fight, many of them may show respect for the emotionless person due to the amount of punishment that the person can/has received. This is a positive and a negative at the same time. It is a positive because people will know it isn't easy to have the emotionless person cry for any reason (able to take a lot of punishment). However, it is a negative because there is always someone that would like to test the emotionless person's limits. To see how much more punishment it would take to make the emotionless person "crack".
The disadvantages that may occur to block emotions is the simply fact that the person doesn't get mad in any form. It is a disadvantage because the person will be gathering all of that emotion for one big "blow-up" for a time in the future. The anger of the emotionless person will decrease, however, it will build-up in the person's mind for another time. No one is able to block emotions completely, it is impossible. The human mind is not advanced enough to be able to stop it all, with no side effects. There are many emotions in the human mind, and many of them join to each other. An example of this would be depression. Depression has a mixture of "sadness", "anger", "loneliness", and a few others to form that one emotion. This is a strong negative emotion, one which when many people express/feel it, the person is unable to stop feeling it without help. It is possible to block some of those negative emotions by themselves; it is more difficult to block them combined into something bigger than themselves.
Emotions can be a form of strength if the person can use the emotions properly. A person can draw strength from emotions if someone close to them (family or friend) is in trouble. In most situations the person in trouble will cause the one trying to help to be distracted. So the one trying to help will not be able to concentrate enough to be able to help out the best. Although the one trying to help will gain a little bit more energy to do the task, not having the proper concentration for the situation may cause more harm than good. If the person trying to help blocks their emotions, then they will be able to concentrate more on the situation which is seen, most of the time, to be a good thing.
If a person has successfully blocked all of their emotions, it may seem that the person is depressed. This may cause people to treat you differently and will be extremely careful not to say the wrong thing. If it seems like you are depressed, bullies will see you as an "easy-target". Bullies will always pick on the weaker person (or seems weaker) to make a better "name" for themselves with their friends. The catch is that if a person seems to be depressed, the bully doesn't expect to need to do a lot to make the person cry. If the person is blocking their emotions, then the bully will have a harder time causing the person to cry. This is true because the person will not have the need to cry during an attack (verbally or physically). This has a high possibility to become a physical attack if the verbal attack doesn't work. This is an example of a great disadvantage in blocking your emotions. The other great disadvantage is when the emotion of "love" comes by. This emotion has a mixture of all the emotions combined and multiplied ten times. It can be the most useful emotion and the most destructive emotion at the same time. If the person has successfully blocked emotions, they are in for a surprise if they think they have stopped them all. Love can and will destroy any mental barrier that a person has on any emotion. There is a high chance that the person will have a "break-down" when trying to block the emotion of "love". There is no current way to block out the emotion of "love", except for not allowing you to express it at all. In other words, to avoid the "love" emotion you will need to think of yourself better than everyone else. In theory, you will not have the need to look at anyone else because they will seem to be "beneath" you. You will also seem to be extremely "stuck-up" by everyone around you if you do this. I do not recommend doing this because it will have greater-negative results. It will give you a greater mental strain than you are prepared for in life.
Emotions are an unknown variable that can be both positive and/or negative to any situation. It is not necessary to block emotions whatsoever, however it is good to have a strong mental hold on them. I say this because there will be many tests throughout life to see how much you decide through emotions which can be a good thing or a bad one depending on the situation.
Logic seems to be talked about as if a person that speaks in facts alone is logical. Some people may say that for a person to be logical, they need to not express any emotions so that they can see the whole picture. It sounds right however, it is dead wrong. To be truly logical for any situation, the person needs to know how to express emotions. The person will require knowing the facts of any situation through the emotional aspect and the technical aspect. This is true logic.
When a person is too emotionally involved when trying to make a "logically" decision, it is best for the person to have someone not so emotionally involved to make the decision for him or her. This needs to be done because the facts of the decision are being neglected when there is too much emotion for the situation. Although one person's emotional reaction to a situation is not always the same as another person's emotional reaction to the situation, a difference in opinion is always required to show other facts that are necessary to view.
Logic and logical decisions are never as "cut and dry" as people make them out to be. Regardless of how much people try to make decisions without any emotion involved, they cannot do any decision without a little bit of emotion (feeling) for the decision. A person may try to say that their opinion is not bias for anyone, however they will become bias after a certain amount of time. A person will feel pity for someone, somehow, and then will become bias for that person. As it has been said, "Everyone has a price".
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