Feelings and Plato

Emotions. Thats such a strong word. Love, Hate, Sadness, Hope, it all means something different yet it all falls under an emotion. How do you define these words? A friend told me once why are you sad? But what makes it sad? He told me I was only sad because I deemed it sad. This made me think. Was he right? Can things be seen from a completely different view?

For instance, but your self in someone else's shoes when your having an argument. Do you all of a sudden understand their side? Can you no longer be upset with them? I think so. I tend to find that I have a hard time stepping into other peoples shoes when I'm feeling emotional.  I expect them to understand me and side with me. I expect them to Love me instead of just letting them love me naturally. I expect them to always be on my side and stand up for me when sometimes I'm actually the one at fault.

Lets break this down;

What is JEALOUSY? jealousy is just an emotion of you being insecure. Most girls that get jealous of their boyfriends are people who insecure with themselves. Once you love yourself you will not be jealous anymore.

What is INSECURITY? Feeling your not good enough? Again this goes back to feeling loved once you love yourself others can love you too!

What is ANGER? Anger is a strong feeling of annoyance. So when someone angers you its usually cause they annoy you and then you can dig deeper into that even more. Why are they annoying you? Could it be do to an insecurity you have? A lot of time people are annoyed of things they don't have so leads back to jealousy.
**Now obviously this isn't always the case**

What is LOVE? Love is the strong attraction you have towards each other and yourself. Everyone defines love differently but you cant love another till you love yourself. I think once you learn to love yourself your problems with all these other emotions will go away :-)

What is PAIN? Pain is the mix of all these emotions at once. Eating away at you. If your in pain you need to feel and work through it or else you will keep it bottled up inside and not let go.

Over the past few months I have been on a roller coaster of emotions lately and it has brought me to better appreciate them and life itself. Life is too short to always be jealous of others. To say I wish he liked me or he liked me. They don't so move on. Why wait for years in hopes that this guy will change his mind? Why not love myself and see what happens then? Once I do that who knows what doors and windows will open unto me? I am excited to see.  We will see the light at the other end of the tunnel and see true reality.

My friend has been teaching me about Platos allergy of the cave. If you don't know what it is go here and you can learn more about it its a fascinating topic and really opened my eyes to a lot of things. :-)    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

Its helped me realize that I live in my own mind alot of us do and we need to break free and turn around and see what is true reality not false reality. That way we can learn more about ourselves and the world and better understand everyone and what makes them tick...