Just thinking about stuff: Emotion is part of being human. A human being devoid of emotion is an automaton. Might as well be an alarm clock or toaster.
Like everything about humans, individually unique creatures have different mixes of emotions within, and, the emotions we DO have tend to ebb and flow, mixing with, or overriding facts, reality, relationships, and other emotions.
Our emotions bump into those of others and our own. They go off on strange tangents like billiard balls on the break.
We sometimes pick up on and share the emotions of others, or may get happy when someone else is angry, or angry when someone else is sad. Our happiness, or anger, may be caused by, or directed at, them...or ourselves.
Emotions, generally bright lights, but sometimes low, flowing shades of black and gray in my personal imagery, are, a light and sound show; dazzling, confusing, scary, exhilarating, and, sometimes blinding to the truth.
I don't mind emotions, although, like many, I don't always know how to handle mine...or those of others.
As with many other things, they exist, for better or for worse, and help make me, you, us, human. They help me create poetry, express and share my innermost feelings, and understand yours as well.
Emotions gave us Michelangelo, Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Adolf Hitler, Albert Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, and some unknown who outlined his hand on a smoky cave wall 10,000 or so years ago.
Emotions open worlds we cannot see with human eyes. Emotions can bind us more tightly together as members of the human family, but, sometimes emotions blind us to our humanity, and the humanity of others with other emotions.
Donovan Baldwin