POTPOURRI AND OTHER RANK ESOTERICA

Irrational Emotional Tolerance

Hatred is not logical.  Happiness is not logical.  Humans have a tendency to think that if something is not logical it's not real.  Society runs on emotion - whether you like it or not.  Emotion is real, but not logical.  The only way you can truly understand how another person feels is to be the other person.  In my opinion many of the problems in society, and in the world, arise from others trying to explain how they feel.  What do they really mean when they say they hate somebody.  If somebody says they hate you do you take offense?  Do you retaliate with an emotional outburst of your own?  People hate to be frustrated, hungry, poor, mistreated, and they hate to be sad.  Feeling those feelings make people angry.  People think they hate whats makes them angry.  Many of them hate the fact that they are angry.  None of this is logical, but it is oh so true.  I'm sure you have thought on occasion, "I wish they knew how I feel", and maybe you have tried to explain how you feel, but feelings are inexplicable - not logical.  Trying to explain often makes things worse when the person who you are explaining the situation to, thinks they are logical - sometimes logic is just another way of saying intolerant.  I have thought a lot about emotion and communication.  Some of you may have seen where I described a new genre of literature in an attempt to get my opinions across.  Situational Existentialism.  The only way to understand Situational Existentialist literature is to imagine that you wrote it yourself.  Then imagine what you must have felt like when you wrote it.  Walk a mile or ten in the other persons shoes before you judge them, even if the shoes aren't your size.  EMPATHY