Emotions play a huge part in people’s behavior, they really dictate how we act towards each other, whether or not we are nice or otherwise to each other, and societies have been shaped by no less than emotions -whether or not backed up by logic- related to ideals, values, or principles. But in the end, they all fall back to a certain emotion, and within these emotions lie a sea of origins and a sea of reactions.

Let me paint a picture, maybe it’ll make my point a bit clearer: Let’s say you’re walking along in a park with your significant other and out of the blue, a past significant other of your significant other happens to be walking in the opposite direction, and they meet and they say hi and maybe the person is a little over affectionate, and maybe he/she puts his/her arm around your S.O.’s waist, and maybe they hold hands for a little too long for comfort… Isn’t it just so obvious what you would be feeling? Now consider that there really is absolutely no reason to be mad, jealous, or in any way negative – let’s say it turns out the reason they parted ways was because the other person wasn’t heterosexual? Doesn’t that change things?..

Okay, now let me give you another example:

Let’s say one of your siblings got beat up, he or she came back home with a black eye and a severed arm, immediately your reaction would be anger, and quite possibly revenge. Now let’s consider that it was your sibling that started it, that it was entirely unprovoked, and that he or she was the guilty party. It would change the way you feel, you might still feel anger, but it’ll be less intense, and certainly his or her state would be justified.

Now you might be wondering what the hell I’m getting at; I don’t think that the natural reactions to those situations are wrong, its perfectly natural to feel jealous over a loved one, and to feel protective too – its human/animal instinct, its deep within us and we can’t really change that. And to some degree, i don’t think we should either. And yet, there is one thing to remember.

It seems that, through my observations at least, a majority of the general public tend to react to these emotions instantly, without taking a second to look back and think. These are who I call impulse slaves. Yes you might have grown up in a society that is extremely reluctant to change, to something new, and yes your impulse reaction might be to push it away, or even go as far as to be actively against it; but for your sake, for the sake of the people around you, and most importantly for the sake of that cause that you’re against, take a moment, have an original thought, be logical about it, keep those stereotypes out of it, and come to a clean, well-thought out, harmless conclusion.

It’s just so easy to be enslaved to your emotions, to your impulses, and if i dare say to your brainwashing, but hardly any good came out of taking the easy path.

I once heard someone say: you can’t control your emotions, just your actions