Good and Bad Emotions
Last week I said that believing certain emotions are good or bad was a lie. We can have the emotions and not do bad things or act in hurtful ways, just like we can experience our emotions and do good things.
For instance, seeing the homeless suffering is not a good emotion. It’s difficult to have that emotional pain or discomfort and those emotions can range from sadness to disgust or fear. And those things are not easy emotions to bear - but they are not wrong to have.
We are not bad people for turning away or avoiding things that frighten or disturb us. Human suffering is difficult to deal with no matter what your reaction - people don’t want to see it because it makes them hurt or be uncomfortable.
We can also take these hard to deal with emotions and they can force us to do something good with them. In the example of the homeless suffering, we may feel uncomfortable emotions, but decide to donate or help out at a homeless shelter.
Emotions and knowing how to process them in a way that heals and ultimately helps others, is key to eliminating our own suffering at the suffering of those around us. Not in a wishy-washy way - but the better we are at processing our own emotions, the better we become at being human. And being human is a good thing.
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