emotions in control
emotions hijack,
I can pretend that I am rational, and controlled,
but how I feel determines much of what I do,
it shoves my sure self out of the way
and takes control of thought and action,
in the darkness of the night,
when first sleep has sloughed off,
much of the heavy weight of the feelings I have been carrying
bubbles up, dark currents surface and carry me into fear,
and often I have to work to reground myself
so that not just the dark fears are in control,
I think emotions can remind us
that only sometimes is the left brain captain of the soul,
the reptile brain, the pejorative term for the part of us that recognizes threat,
and galvanizes action, is much of who we are,
"hijack" seems to me to be the wrong word,
rather it seems our emotions can countermand
the cocky assurance that will can assert,
we need a consensus within
that somehow holds all of us at the same time,
we might well need to be hijacked when we're going the wrong way,
we need to hold both despair and hope, anger and love,
otherwise who we are is less than who we should be.
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