Friday, April 11, 2014

RP 1: Am I able to feel too much emotion?



On the poem Fugitive Colors written by Chrystos, I started to ponder about the human limitation on feeling a certain emotion and how people are able to tell others on how they demonstrate or feel too much of a certain emotion. Do we have the ability and knowledge to make people aware that they are surpassing a certain limit or quantity of emotion? How are we able to figure out what is the limitation on someone's anger, fear, and happiness? When someone tells you that you are too angry, do they recognize the reasons on why you are angry and feel that they are not responsible or are they trying to hide the fact that there is something to be angry about? These questions and many more have been floating around eager to find an answer because if someone is able to know the fact on your limitations on anger or any emotion, then it is contradictory to the fact that all humans are unique and that you are your own person. 
The excess on emotion also brings exhaustion on the person, but also plants the seed of question on the person that is either listening or reading. Once that seed is planted into someone's mind then the person has the ability to nurture it with curiosity and educating themselves on whether the other person's opinion is true or not. Then again, the only way to really know is to research it yourself and not wait until someone else tells you if it is true or not. The person also has the ability to ignore it and forget about it and let the seed die by continuing their life without remorse. Everyone needs to be curious about the world because the world does not have just one point of view and does not revolve around one single person.
There are people that influence your way of thinking by only conversing with you. People are able to make you think the way they think, but only if you lack the knowledge and experience will they be able to convert your mentality into theirs. If what someone tells you is plausible then you will either accept it or neglect it.
Just like Chrystos, I am also angry with some of the things that she mentions only because I have witnessed it or personally experienced it. There are many injustices in the world that not many people want to believe that exist either because they are the ones that are acting that way or because they are afraid to reveal the truth. Now a days, revealing the truth has been seen as a form of treason or a form of ruining a "perfect" society that has been established but in reality, nothing is perfect and nothing will be perfect because if everything was perfect then everyone would be the same and everyone would have the same mentality and nothing would be the same. I guess what I am trying to say, with my scattered thoughts and insufficient words, is that there is no possible way for the world to be perfect without someone feeling indifferent. Emotions are nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to suppress because when you suppress an emotion you are not only suppressing that person, but also the human race.

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