Emotions

     Why do we have these feelings of being sad, happy, embarrassed, nervous, and etc.? This is a question that just came up to me. Why do we experience so many different feelings? We develop these feelings without even knowing because it just comes and go. We all go through times when we are depressed and scared at a point, where did they come from?

     Why do we cry when we are sad? Why does our face turn red when we are nervous or embarrassed? We don't control these things that are happening to us. Science doesn't even explain why we cry. Maybe there is a reason, but I have not found the answer to it yet. Maybe there is something that controls how we feel. Well, I don't know why we develop emotions, but emotions are something that might be new to us.

    I think that emotions develop from out surroundings. If we have never failed terribly, we would not feel disappointed. If we did not see someone very dear to us leave us, we would not know how death feels like. If we never had a crush, we would not know how it feels to like someone. I think that emotions are things that create us; without emotions, our life would be very boring. If we have no feelings, life will not be exciting. It is like we don't like living. I think I would not be able to live without emotions.

     Emotions can also teach us life lessons in life. It can stop us from going the wrong road and make the same mistakes again. For instance, if we feel very confused and don't know what to do because you have just made a lie that started to spread, you would learn to never do that again. Another example would be when we feel tired because we keep procrastination on or work, this feeling will tell us to change our habits. Emotions do a lot for us. I have never really noticed it before either until now. I think that emotions have created who we are and how we are as humans. There are absolutely lots of emotions or feelings that I hope to go through. Emotions can be new to us and sometimes we are confused about it. I think feelings are what that make us go one, they are things that we all should have and experience. We could also overcome some of our feelings, such as being nervous in front of a whole group of people. Emotions. What are they really? What would happen if we have no emotions at all? Have they done anything to change who we are?

Jealousy

     Have you ever felt jealous at one point? I have personally felt jealous many times, but I get over it later on. Why do we have this feeling of jealousy? Is it because we think that they are better than us or we want what they have. Sometimes I have no idea why I feel jealous, but I think I feel jealous because I think that they are so lucky and so much more better than me. Maybe this is the reason why I feel jealous. Is there different types of jealousy because we feel jealous of different types of things. Well, I think that there are a lot of things that we can be jealous about things such as: relationships, friendship, money, things that we don't have, and etc.

     Have you ever let jealousy taken over you? I let this happen once and I will not let this happen again. Being jealous at someone is not a very good feeling. I felt very bad and trapped inside like I could not do anything else. When this happened, I started to develop the feeling of hatred and started to hate he/she. Jealousy just does not lead to good things and I think that we should be happy of what we have. We don't all have to have things sufficient to what others have. Having the feeling of jealousy just makes you look down at yourself and think that you are not as good. Well, when I let jealousy take over me, I would try to feel positive because I would rather be a happy person.

     When we are jealous, we do some things that we would not normally do. I think that we should be more calm when this happens. We do not always have to have what others have. If we do, then doesn't it just make us all the same. I think we should just feel happy for what they have. Everyone is different and there are other problems that we have to worry about in life. We can't always face with these little problems that we have because if we don't learn how to over come them we can not face life problems that we have in life later on. We can not let the feeling of jealousy take over our minds and bother our everyday lives. I have not felt jealous for a long time and I think that no one should have the feeling of jealousy. We need to be more happy in life and just laugh with our friends.

Response; "Stage Fright"

While I was reading David's post, I thought that I could really relate to it:

 "Ever since I was a kid, I always acquired the trait stage fright when I was on stage. I disliked the feeling of everyone constantly staring at me. It makes me feel as if I was an important person and that I had to become perfect. I felt that if I made a mistake, everyone would laugh at me and tease me afterward."

     I felt like I have attribute this characteristic of stage fright ever since I was in elementary. This is something that I would like to overcome. I want to change this to a strength of mines that I would be able to use on my educational career. Stage fright is very common, and people mostly derive this feeling when they are going to have a presentation in from of an audience. I personally have improved from being really nervous in front of the class and start to shift away from that position.

     This kind of feeling always occur no matter how much I have practiced. I noticed that my words will start sounding really dis-formed like I was a beginner in learning English. Then I would just start speaking very fast and not notice it. Something very embarrassing that would always happen when I am presenting is that my face would just turn bright red and I would start to feel my face burning up. If I start being really nervous, my hands would start to shake uncontrollably and start to mispronounce words.

     Having everyone staring at me makes me feel that I have to do a really good; this kind of relate to what David said. I have found something that I should do when I get really nervous and keep me very calm. This is a thing I know that a lot of people do before they present. I have learned to take a deep breath and think of a positive thing, and hence you would have faith in ourselves that we will not fail. I will try to use this skill to the fullest, but I often seem to forget to take a deep breath and also I would feel that everyone will think I am weird when I am taking a deep breath in the middle of speaking.