Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 3:49 AM
If you could eliminate one emotion from the world, would you?
Well, the first thing that popped up in my mind was-Duh, of course. If I eliminate anger, then I would be able to escape scot-free from teachers when I forget to do my homework, which just so happens to occur a lot. Many people fear anger as it is unpredictable. I myself hate to seeing my parents' shadowing faces when I submit a report card full of red marks, only to be left quivering under their slit-like eyes. How happy this world will be if everyone will be able to brush off others' mistake without any trace of intolerance and anger? No more frowns. Only smiles all the way.Then, I thought about this.
No, my idea was wrong.
The human emotion is an umcomprehensible blob of thoughts that cling onto our hearts. As I said, it is difficult to understand, just like the sentence above. My intitial thoughts were wrong too. True, teachers are angry at us for not completing our work, but is it senseless fury that drives them? Heavens no. It is the care and concern that they develop for their students that make them seem like such a gorgon to us (At least for most teachers). But they have no choice. Who will listen to a softie? The only way to reach out to their students is through unleashing their 'dark side'.
Hence, by removing any emotion according to our whims and fancies, the link between teacher and student will be removed. It would be like removing the very core of the teacher, the very driving force that makes the teacher do what she/he does.
What would a world be without anger? There would be no petty quarrels, no outrageous fights, no catastrophic wars and what we all hope for- softie teachers. This sounds like a good deal, right? But just think about the flipside. What would a world be without anger? Many things would never have happened without anger, actually. Let me give you a brief personal recount.
There was this time when I was hooked on my studies. Okay, I may have sounded like a nerd but trust me, those who knows me now would totally disagree. So, back to the point. I did quite terribly for this single math test, scoring a unacceptable 63 out of 100 mark. That was definitely a big, fat F in my book and I was shaken. My friends had all zoomed sky high in this seeminigly simple test. I felt envious and really wanted them to just disappear. No, it was not envy I felt that time, it was anger. I was angry at myself for failing myself. 63 was not what I wanted. 63 was terrible.
But amongst all this anger and hatred, I found the strength to continue, the strength to improve. And it was thanks to this strength, or rather the emotion 'anger' that drived me to step forward into an unrelenting reality.
So, next time someone asks me whether I feel angry, I would certainly reply, "I'm angry, so what?"
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