Feelings Must NOT Define Us

Feelings Must NOT Define Us

Remember the lyrics from Katy Perry's song:  DO YOU EVER FEEL, LIKE A PLASTIC BAG DRIFTING THROUGH THE WIND, TRYING TO START AGAIN?  Exactly.  Do you ever just feel like you're doing so well and your day is going great?  Then all of a sudden the weather shifts out of left field unexpectedly.  Everything is going well for you and then all of a sudden out of that left field you just feel this heavy weight of NEGATIVITY get to your head.  Thing is, Feelings Must NOT Define Us📗📙📘

When you may question everything you're doing in your life, you're wondering if you're in the RIGHT PLACE and/or if you are in the correct line of work.  The people you are surrounding yourself with, all different facets of your life may seem much more NEGATIVE than they did a few hours ago.  Isn't that strange? All the NEGATIVE thoughts are flooding in and you may see the world and your work as just plain awful.  Some people may call it an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS but I'll opine that it's just a moment WHEN we're just feeling kind of low and NOT sure about what we're doing OR if we're in the right direction📌📌📌

BUT that it just completely NORMAL, right?  And just an outlier, an 'OFF DAY', right?  That happened to me in the past.  Given the efficiency record of the Singapore metro train, I expected to be in office in ten minutes only to find out while I was at the passenger platform that there will be five-minute delay.  WHEN I finally reached my office, I booted up my laptop, still oozing with energy and rushed quickly to the pantry to prepare my coffee only to spill it on seat when I rushed back.  And when I was clicking and clicking my Outlook mail application for urgent mails, for reasons I cannot fathom, my mail folders were NOT updating.  Talk about MURPHY's Law💴💷💵

As quick as my reflexes can be, I quickly recovered and whispered to myself that all these snafu that early morning should NOT define me for that day by egging myself to STICK to my priorities, THAT I got deliverables that day, THAT nothing else can spoil my day except my non-delivery [which was a NO-NO]❌❌❌

So, hearing these expressions like, "I'm pissed off with my mom", "I'm furious with my boss" OR "I'm sad and depressed today", those are manifestations or the first inklings where we're using our emotions to DEFINE who we are, even for a day.  WHEN we succumb to that failing, we are almost GIVING UP our own identify and end up being controlled by our emotions.  More often, we do NOT become 'angry; or 'happy'.  Instead, we merely feel ANGER or HAPPINESS.  Whatever it is we are FEELING, it is important to remember that we are still ourselves.  A human being who feels a wide spectrum of EMOTIONS. So, what really happens when you make that distinction in the way you approach EMOTIONS is that we will end up realizing that we are still in CONTROL of things.  We should realize the complex creature that allows us to hold multiple personalities and FEELINGS at the same time and IF it cab easy to compartmentalize.  Just ensure our FEELINGS MUST NOT DEFINE US❗❗❗