These critters we call emotion

Dedicated to all parents put there.

Emotions are our tools. 

Being able to control your emotions is a skill. 

We always get to experience the depths of these critters that engage us to do what we do. 

They say our most natural emotions are anger, envy, grief, fear and love. 

They're usually somehow repressed in most of us as we grew up. 

Because we were told that it was somehow wrong to feel them. 

When these go out of our control we feel rage, jealousy, panic, chronic depression and the misunderstanding of love we call possessiveness. 

Many have hurt and killed people, even destroyed our planet because of these eccentric but grotesque emotions. 

Taking a step back we do see that It's truly in our human nature to feel anger when the unexpected happens. It's what allows us to say stop and no to someone or something we dislike. It never has to be violent or abusive. 

Even grief helps us properly let go when we deep inside don't want to say the last goodbye. We actually need to grieve when we lose our loved ones. 

Envy can inspire greatness, it makes us motivated to learn how to dance and sing just like our friends or siblings. These are all appropriate emotions. 

It can be said that these 3 can come from fear. 

Fear gives us caution so we don't injure our bodies. It helps us stay alive. 

Fear can also be seen as the flip side of love, an outgrowth of love to be more exact. This can be seen in all mothers. How they worry and fear for their children out of pure love. When we try to save our own children from sickness and disease we experience both fear and love. 

So to all the parents with kids. We should let children feel and express these natural emotions. Let them play with these critters and get to know them just like pets. Because If these are continually repressed it will be difficult for them to understand these emotions and they will react completely unnatural later on. 

Most adults today don't understand that these critters are divine gifts and companions given to us at birth. So when we deny them at a young age we start letting these emotions grow out of control. 

Subsequently as adults, we become violent because of rage. 

We want less for others and drag people down because we get jealouse. 

We get chronically depressed and never let go of the past when we know we can't change it. 

We panic, becoming reckless and end up creating chaos for us and people surrounding us. 

We become possessive and smother the ones we love, abusing them both physically and mentally. 

The point is that these are super UNnatural. 

It happens because we deny who we really are, manipulated by parents who in turn were manipulated by society, religion, traditions and all the man made corruption that instill extreme fear and deny absolute love. 

When we start getting to know all these emotions even more, we learn to live life to the fullest with these epic critters at our side! 

 Just like we do when we have true friends in our lives.

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[The leaking boat]

Truly amazing writing! bravo!