Has the display of strong emotions served you well in your life, or has it been a hindrance?

Answer 1

The unthinking display of strong emotions has often been a hindrance but the strong emotions themselves are the very sole of life.

Answer 2

I think it has been more of a hindrance than a help. There are some people who show their emotions easily and passionately. I think this is especially true with anger. I tend to be more quiet and easy going. I have a very long fuse and it takes a lot to make me really angry. By the time I am furious, watch out! I try very hard not to get to that point because by then I have lost my self control. Experience has shown me that it is better to walk away and calm down before speaking. Sometimes I will tell the other person that I am too emotional to communicate very well, and I will talk to them later.

Answer 3

The strong feelings are there for a reason although we don't always need to share them with the whole world even though some of us still do. It's the intentions that they cause to turn into behaviors that turn into further intentions which turn into further behaviors. I think sometimes that it might be good to take a step back and sometimes even stop and that is not always easy or possible. One might want to leave people alone and not keep at them when they are in that kind of a frame of mind. After all solitude and being by ones self isn't always as bad as our society is currently wanting to make it seem like it is, our country was founded on the right to privacy. Sometimes people hurt other people because they have emotions and sometimes the emotions are just what people need to have, so I figure that this is a perceptual question and there can be no one right answer. I do not always know what to do, I will not say that I am sorry for having feelings, I am a human being, I suppose that it is what we do with them that matters the most isn't it?

Answer 4

I'd say it's generally been a hmmmm I don't like to say hindrance, because I consider life a growth experience, and all the negatives just positives, in drag.

I'd rather call it a challenge, or unwanted and unwelcome [at the moment] growth experience.

However, most of the strong emotions I've tended to display in life involved anger I brought in with me. Anger, until a person learns the methods for making it vanish, tends to produce a phenomenon someone who doesn't view life as I do, would call a hindrance.

Answer 5

Jack P's response is great. I love the "in drag". Some occasions warrant strong emotions. Generally, it is the young who are restless and emotional because they are unable to keep things in perspective and have the need to feel in control. With age comes the realization that most things are not relevant and time changes everything. Strong emotions are only a hindrance if one fails to move forward.

Answer 6

Quite a bit of both. Sometimes I just try really hard to keep things in control, but other times letting my emotions come out and get a little wild has really helped me get through things. And yet.... Well, I have to say that it has been a hindrance except in extremely controlled situations where I really needed to get things all out in order to move along. Yes. Very nice question, makes me think!

Answer 7

It's been a mixed bag for me really. When I was younger, in my teens, 20s and early 30s it was what I needed to do to *get out* from under my family, get into college, drive myself to get the education and *get into* therapy.

But....as I've gotten older, and in particular as the town around me that I live in currently has become less and less tolerant of just about *every damned thing*, my emotions have not only become a hindrance, they've become something "unsafe" for the most part. As in I've been scared to say or do anything really to stand up for myself, because people "know" (or just assume) that I "have issues" because I'm poor and don't look like some young preppy student anymore.

And these days, people don't even bother to get training and talk to people. Ordinary citizens just go on the attack and get verbally abusive (if I had a dime for every time someone verbally abused me on the damned mass transit bus alone I could buy you and me *both* a nice dinner, ok?). Police officers and the like simply start carrying more guns and tasers and are given *license* to get trigger-happy.

Yes, I get it that some folks could argue that I brought this on myself, that I shouldn't have been "emotional" in the first place. But. I didn't ask for the problems I have either. I didn't pick my family and in fact *moved here* where I am now to get out from under my circumstances, and yet those circumstances have in part *followed me here*. What the hell?

All I've ever tried to do in my life is to get myself a life, ok? I don't really want to rule the world. I just want the same things other people take for granted: a purpose in life, a job or career that keeps body and soul together, friends to be with, someone to love me that I can love back. You know, the basics, right? And I've had to fight *just to get close* to those things.

And now people resent me for the fighting and want me under social lockdown like it's a police state now. I don't get that, don't want to. I'd really rather not fight anymore, but at the same time, I don't want to be an Enemy of the State, just for *having* strong emotions, you know?

Is that so difficult to understand? When do *I* get to Live Free? I've only been waiting all my life for this. Working all my life for this. Suffering all my life for this. When do I get mine?

Sorry to go on so....thanks for your time! ^_^

Answer 8

I try not to display strong emotions. When I have something that serious going on in my life, be it grief, joy, pain, anger, etc, I generally share the emotions only with those I am most close to like my sister.

Answer 9

When I was doing the beginning steps of becoming a healthy adult...I was very emotional.

It served me well because it was like the cry of a baby...it was the only thing I knew to do at such a low point.....and the only way I knew to express true gratitude....I was fortunate to be surrounded by thoughtful, loving family and friends all the way through the most emotional times.



my emotions are now expressed through passion ...not confusion...


.....which basically means I have become balanced enough to really be of help to my family and friends when they need to be emotional....

don't get me wrong, I feel very deeply, I have merely tempered the outpouring with grace and understanding

Answer 10

believe nothing you hear, half of what you see
know only that you don't know everything
think through things before you speak

If you do this first, then there is no reason to not trust your emotions or your gut. Sometimes though, strong emotions need a helping hand for someone to get through them. Such as mourning a loss, coming to grips with the world, or becoming aware of yourself in a new light.

The display of your emotions should always be reserved in public, entrusted with few, and unforgivable. So display them wisely.