Saturday, March 19, 2011

To what extent does emotion affect your point of view?


Generally, we can see how different factors affect our sense perception and therefore affect everything in our daily lives. It is determinate even to the decisions we take, no matter the subject or the magnitude of importance for us or everyone else.  If we think about emotions, it is sometimes difficult to define them, in other words it is hard for us even to see the difference between  to  what extent is something having only an emotional approach and when only a reasonable one. This happens a lot due to the interception of these two ways of knowing in many occasions. 

So, if we think about just emotion, how could it be defined? Yes, it is hard to find a specific definition for it but, why? It is right here where sense perception starts being affected on what we think something is a way or another. For example, in the simple definition of emotion, there could be millions of people thinking completely different ways to define it. Most of the time, it is also this decision linked to our personality and our character; in general to the way every single person is. Meaning being a very emotionally lead person would probably end up giving a definition that within it shows much more the importance of emotion in our lives. For example, this person could say that emotion is the union of feelings that we can get due to a circumstance that will most probably end up determining the way you react to it. Maybe, another  person that is commonly affected by emotion could say that emotion is the natural way that every single human being should feel when you go through different moments in your life, whether it is love, fear or happiness within all the other emotions. On the other hand, there could be people that are most of the time very calm when it gets to reacting to something or that do not get affected us much by emotion. This people could define emotion as: an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, etc, is experienced. We could also meet a very scientific person which due to the way he things and the ideas he has to be researching all day long would end up answering that emotion is a strong feeling state, arising subjectively and directed toward a specific object, with physiological, somatic, and behavioral components.

As different circumstances occur all of these people, which are just four examples of the many that could exist, they will as well most probably react to them differently and in the same paralleled way. Whether it is an action that has to be taken or just a natural point of view that has to be given, people will most certainly react following the same idea of what emotion is. So, for example, portraying a situation where one family member of these four people has just been diagnosed a terminal sickness. Even if all of them were shocked at the beginning, throughout some time, they would most certainly see the situation differently depending on the emotional impact each of them had after receiving the news. The most emotional people would probably see it as a tragedy and would cry and say it is one of the worst things. They could even get into a strong depression and will stop their daily life routine, since they are so affected. On the other hand, the two other people even though they were affected by the news, once the shocking emotion passed, they would see it in a more realistic, less emotional point of view. These people would then express themselves as to think that it is a natural thing to happen, that it is the cycle of life, and that one way or another, the situation has to be confronted and therefore, there is no point in crying or making the problem bigger than it is. 

In conclusion, it is clear that emotion affects our point of view towards basically everything in our lives, even if we do not notice it. As simple as defining emotion it can change from one person to another, depending on the personality, character, culture and context, among other factors. Defining emotion depends on the point of view of its meaning and this same point of view is depending on the natural emotional factor of human beings.

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