They acknowledged emotions, but they just didn’t let them dictate the way they acted.
Nowadays, especially, there are plenty of people who use their emotions as the driver for decision making, which is wrong on so many levels, because most of the time, those decisions that we’ve taken based on emotion were regrettable.
Maybe we’ve said words that we shouldn’t have said, maybe we’ve broken things or we’ve left relationships in a very aggressive way.
Love can make you blind and when you realise how much you’ve not seen, it’s going to be too late and the damage will be already done. You should be above your emotions and your instincts.
There have been plenty of divorces and ruined families because of cheating. And that cheating happens when people have little to no control. In some cases, people know exactly what they’re doing, but they find ways to justify it and trick their brains, instead of pausing to think rationally.
Being angry can literally destroy your life; it can cost you a lot of time and money. Being emotionally agitated, crying, or just angry will increase the chance of an accident.
There were a lot of studies done with driving simulations, and the angry people had two times more accidents. And this is not only applied to driving, but to every aspect of your life.
Accept the emotion, embrace it, and use it for something good, but never let it rule over you. Whenever you make a decision, be sure that logic and rationality are at the basis of that decision.
Being sad for too long will chip at your self-esteem, will hold you back at first, then it will drag you down. At the end of your life, you’re going to realise that you could have done a lot more, but you set only small goals because your self-esteem signalled to you that you weren’t meant for great things.
You should look at sadness as being a call for you to improve, to get out of that pit. And you do it by keeping your discipline, by doing constantly what you’re supposed to do, regardless of what emotion you experience.
Show up and do the work and eventually the sad feeling will go away. If you become a winner, it’s going to be hard to be sad. If you’re active, it’s also going to be hard to experience that feeling.
Conclusion
Feeling emotions is not something that you should avoid; they are a part of our human existence. Remember that you’re more than your emotions, so don’t let them take control of you.
