Masking Emotions with Analytical Thinking

» madelyn22 - Dealing with Pain

In my experience, you find those who respond to adversity either by melting down, or by analysing the situation.
I believe that we handle these things as we are best able to.
When I was younger, I would get angry when someone would analyse and process something that I myself would fly into a vortex of emotional excess over.
Now, I am wise enough to know that people deal with events differently and to appreciate that difference. The very fact that dialogue occurs is a way of responding to a situation. Silence is distinctly unhealthy.
I had a professor who told me that any human account is innaccurate because it comes from a human, who is theoretically flawed and imperfect. I protested this explanation, but what I think he meant is that the perception of one person is not the perception of another.
I still fly to the four corners of the room in an excess of emotion, but now , I am able to hear and appreciate the views of others, instead of being angry because they do not ape my responses.
I think I am learning a measure of patience.

-- posted by madelyn22

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