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Posted by mcdamas in August 31st, 2008

All of us, even a small infant, have emotion or feeling. Our emotion changes minute by minute, day by day, depending on what is happening to us. So, emotion is responses in our heart to anything that happens to us. Based on The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, emotion is a moving of the mind or soul; a state of excited feeling of any kind, as pleasure, pain, grief, joy, astonishment; one of the three fundamental properties of the human mind, the other two being volition (will) and intellect. Emotion is important, because it can control our actions, influence our image, and have significant impacts in our future.

Sometimes, we decide to hide our emotions. The impacts are relative, depending on the situation and how we deal with problems. For example, we get news that our best friends just got serious injury in a car accident this morning. We in reflex feel so sad. Then we pay a visit to our best friends’ house to show our sympathy.

Sharing our feeling with others especially sadness and anger, is better than suppressing it. There are many benefits we get from doing so.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox’ famous quotations:
‘Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
‘Weep and you weep alone.’
If we share our happiness with everyone around us, it will influence our activities in the whole day. We will feel happier and be in good mood. We can not easily get angry but we can do everything calmly. Our interaction with other people will be good, so they enjoy talking with us. In short, sharing our feeling multiplies our happiness, influences people around us, and makes all things seem fine.

Friedrich Halm said: ‘Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half sorrow’. When we cry, people will only feel sympathy, they can not feel as sad as we feel, and our sadness will not be reduced. The only way to solve this problem is: share our sorrow! Crying or angry is not enough yet, we have to tell someone: parents, siblings, or close friend about why we are crying, or what our problem is. After talking about our sorrow, we will feel better, even though the main problem has not yet been solved. So, sharing makes the problems seem easier, and give us a closer feeling to our sharing friends.

Wiseman said: ‘A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk’. It means we can identify a person’s personality by his words, his emotion, and his attitude. Each person has different responses and emotions in facing the same problem. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: ‘We boil at different degrees’. Through watching our emotional control and our way of sharing problems, people will recognize our personality.

There are several kinds of people. Some people can not express their anger and suppress it. Others are more sensitive and show their anger easily. The others choose to talk about it. From the three attitudes, the most dangerous one is the first because they will explode if they get so much pressure. It is like a bottle of soda: the more we shake it, and then the more it splashes out of the bottle. On the other hand, if we just open the cap and pour it, we will only see some bubbles which then disappear fast. Both suppressing and showing anger unwisely are not such a good decision, sharing is just the best since by doing so our anger will resolve faster.

In short, sharing our feeling or emotion brings to us many benefits more than suppressing it. Sometimes, hiding your feeling is good, but sharing it is better and will give good impacts to not only us but also people around us. Inas HI 3/3