Emotions...I've ransacked every nook and cranny of my brain to get a hold of just what this word means. and how much importance should be given to it in my life's lexicon.

It might sound funny, but most of us are nothing but victims of these wickedly deceiving emotions. When our emotions say be happy, we become happy. When they say show anger, we become angry. When they say be sad, we start feeling sad...theres no end to it.
But do we ever try to find out the reason as to why these emotions are coming? Just try to find out next time when you get an emotional upsurge, and you will be amazed to see how pittifully small and incongruous the reason is.
Our mind is bombarded with so many of these worthless emotions everyday, and we gratefully accept and infact even perpetuate them.

For instance, imagine a very beautiful girl comes and says to you-"Gosh! You are so hansome. I really love you!" (I said just imagine.. :P). Most of the people will react-"Really?!"
But if the same girl comes and remarks-"You are so ugly and lousy", then I doubt any of you will react the same way.

Such is the human tendency, we always tend to doubt the positive and accept the negetive. Thinking so much as to what others might think of us, we have actually become a football of others opinions. But believe me...noone gives a damn. No one has time enough to waste on you. So why do you give a shit to it.

In life, there can be just two roles we can play - either a victim, or a witness. If we opt for the former, we will be a football of not only others, but our own emotions. Yes...our OWN emotions.
Howz that?? How can we be football of our own mind?
I will tell my perception on this.
Say, we own a car, we say-"Its my car", but we are not the car. Similarly, "Its my laptop", "Its my mobile", but we are not the mobile or the laptop.
Similarly, those are our emotions, but we are not the emotions. Don't you think we are much more important than some mere chemically activated electrical signals travelling through our neurons?

Well...I know that I am.
So I've opted to be the witness.
Ive opted to keep my happiness unadulterated from the emotions I get.
I've opted to RESPOND to situations, rather than REACT to them (catch the difference..??).
I've made my choice.

Now its your decision, what role you wanna play - the victim, or the witness???

Love,
Nikhil