I'm Already There

I haven't had a lot of time to get into the Pet Sounds discussion, but I should be able to get there in a few days. Meanwhile....

I think sometimes we underestimate our own emotions. Generally speaking this might be more true for males, but all of us at one point or another are surprised about the way we feel about any given thing at any given time. Everybody has those days where they are inexplicably happy, or even depressed. We all go through moments of nostalgia which at its very nature is completely random. But why does this happen? In our quest to know ourselves, how do we never reach the point where our emotions are incapable of surprising us? Is it that we don't know ourselves as well as we thought? Is it that we know ourselves too well? Or is it that we will never ever be able to gain full and complete understanding of our emotions? I think many would answer to the affirmative on that last question. I disagree to an extent. I think knowing and accepting our emotions' abilities to surprise us is part of understanding them. That surprise, I feel, is necessary. I think that not always being aware of our possible emotional responses are what makes us humans. If we know exactly what we'd feel at whatever circumstance and situation we are made into robots.

So to make sense out of absolute crap...embrace the surprise. Be shocked that you are feeling something that you hadn't felt in a long time, and don't try to ignore or hide from it. Your emotions are a part of you...a huge part of you. Take them, marry them with the logical side of you and be who you are.