The Emotions We Choose

Hello friends,

I was driving across town yesterday, and usually, when I drive, I spend a lot of that time trying to reflect upon my own thoughts, to see if I could create something new or learn something new.

I was going through some unpleasant moments with someone in the days before, and I kept thinking to myself, "why don't they understand the sadness in me," or "why don't they witness the longingness I have for them all this time."

And then I started to realize that people prefer happiness over any other emotions. Or no, to say again, people prefer the emotional place of happiness more than the emotional place of sadness or longingness.

I came to understand this because I am trying to reach a place of happiness by exposing these moments of sadness and longing from myself. And in a way - in a relationship of any kind, if one person is at a happy place while the other is not - most likely, the happy person would try to take the unhappy one to the place of happiness rather than travel down to stay at the place of unhappiness.

I find myself very productive when I am sad; all the poetry, the songs, the paintings or the stories I could create. However, this is not a good place to be; it's not a place to dwell forever in.

Stay here a little, or even for a while. Write your songs, write your poetry. But remember, get up and travel to the place of happiness once you're ready to.

d.s.l.