Emotions
...eld by an energetic determination to act on one’s own beliefs. Love may be the most often sought after emotion. Love by definition, is the object of affection; strong liking; goodwill; or benevolence (http://dictionary.reference.com) . It is a strong feeling. Many believe it is the strongest of all feelings. I believe the word love is often not used properly. It is the feeling that makes us all feel good. Love is sometimes denied by some. When a father tells his son he does not love him and refuses to say I love you, he may simply be denying that emotion. The bond between a father and son is natural. It is in fact love. Denying love to oneself and to others may leave a scar that cannot be erased. Love should not be denied. On the other side, there are those who overuse the word. Love should not be confused with liking. People can also use the word to get things that they want. This action can cause hatred to be formed. The opposite of love is hate. True hatred is not often felt by anyone. Hatred is the extreme dislike or discontent towards an individual, idea, or object (http://dictionary.reference.com). To hate one is a hard thing to do. To hate you must feel no love towards that person or idea. When Pope John Paul II (the leader of the Roman Catholic Church) was shot, during an attempted assasination, it was thought that he felt hatred towards the individual who put his life in jeopardy. He did not die and recovered fully. Years later he went to visit this man who was in jail for trying to kill him. He responded “I can not hate. Hate is too strong. I told him that all can be forgiven in anyone’s heart over time. The time for me to forgive you was today. I, like any man, cannot hate, but I can love.” (http://www.cin.org/pope.html). Osama Bin Laden is on the other side of the spectrum. For him to be the mind behind such mass destruction, there is no doubt that he feels pure hatred towards certain people and/or ideas. This statement agrees with my beliefs in regards to hatred. Hate results in the regression of man. When we feel hope all is possible. Hope is when you believe something is possible. When you can believe things can happen you begin to try and make them happen. If there was no hope in the exploration of space, would Kennedy of started the space program? (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov). When you see movies where the world is more perfect, do you not think and hope that one day the real world may be like that? I was walking on the way to one of my classes. I looked on the ground and there laid a piece of paper. I picked it up and put it in the trash. Now that I am writing this essay I realized why I did that. I thought that one day, maybe not during my life, there would be less pollution. I have hope that what I do will make a difference. Hope can be an effective tool in the success of man. Despair is the opposite of hope. When despair is felt nothing seems possible. It seems that all is lost and there is no hope in finding anything. We all have felt despair, however a key to sccess is to find hope during these times. During the time we are feeling despair we may make bad choices that are unforgivable. That is also why we must find hope. Joy is an emotion that is a feeling of happiness. The feeling of joy is felt when something good happens. The opposite emotion of joy is sorrow. Sorrow can be felt when we do something that we did not mean to do. We regret it We feel sorrow also when we feel bad for something that happens to someone else. We often use the phrase “I’m sorry.” Most of the time sorrow is not really felt. People tend to think that sorrow being felt for them is a good thing. It is an easy thing to abuse. There are many people out there just looking for attention, and yearning for sorrow is a good way to get it. Humans have a natural feeling of competitiveness. When we see something we want, we have a natural need to need compete for it. When man first lived on the earth they were a weak creature with simple methods of surviving. When there were more than one genus of species of humans, the ones with the most competitive features survived. This led to the evolution of man to who we are now. Sixty-five million years ago the most primitive of all humans appeared on the earth, they were early prosimians. The fossil lemur was the first of the primitive primate to be linked direct. Lemurs are small dog like apes that live high in the trees. They have a body that is a cross between a raccoon, a dog, and spider monkey. (Bronowski 37). They are much like Homo sapiens in many ways. The lemurs have the capability to carry on life-long relationships. The lemurs mate once a year. When a young lemur is ready to mate they begin to search for a mate. When the male lemur finds a mate of his liking he begins to show off his fancy tail. As he does this, he uses the scent glans on his wrist to spray his scent over the other scents that are present. Then he fends off any other males. His competitive drive is what will cause him to succeed or fail. If he is strong and mature he will scare away other potentials mates, leaving him alone with the mate of his choice and no one else. He will mirror the female and then after a long ritualistic process they will mate. These two lemurs will do this every few years for the rest of their life that they are able to mate (Bronowki 37-38). They form a bond. Lemurs are capable of feeling love. They demonstrate competetiveness. This is how long man has had the capacity to feel emotions. The lemurs live in troops, of ten to twenty lemurs. They do everything together, including taking responsibility for each others lives. These lemur troops may be first mold of the modern family. Today the average American family consist of one parent (usually the mother) and two and one half children. Although the “model family” is a mother, a father , and two and one half children (Census.gov). Within a family the many emotion are what make a family work or not work. Emotions also effect every individural in a larger way, a global way. Everyday, our lives are in the hands of others. It is often over-looked that the destruction of the world is only a push of a button away. There are leaders throughout the world who have the capability to destroy the earth. If they became overly filled with hatred toward a certain country, group of people or the entire world they could eliminate them. The world is a fragile thing that a dangerous species rules over. There are no more firm standards for emotional maturity as there are for physical development. Nor are their easy rules to follow in attaining it. Individual behavior, derived from a combinat...