The text describes several views of emotion, all of which
hold some truth to them. The view of
emotion that I best identify with is the interactive view of emotion. The
interactive view of emotion describes a process where our understanding of
rules and norms shape our way of expressing emotion. In this view, emotion is
expressed in three different parts, framing rules, feeling rules, and emotion
work. The first two elements focus on the foundations of emotion and our
understanding of society’s norms. Emotion work describes the psychological work
people put in to feel a certain way.
Emotional work is something I do constantly. I’ve found myself to be an overall optimistic
person. However, it takes a lot of work
to look over all the bad things that happen in life, and see the good in it. I’ve
always known that I’ve consciously made myself happy, but I never understood a
term to describe it. This concept better explains my idea of emotions, because
emotions and attitude is a choice. Other concepts of emotion express an external
influence to emotions. I deeply believe the only thing that can affect me is
me. Maybe I’m just stubborn like that. J
-Jossshhuaa
Hi Jossshhuaa,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. I am the same way. I tend to take responsibility for others because I don't like to hurt people's feelings. I do that by speaking in generalities when expressing myself if I think it might hurt them. You said that you take the blame for people or blame yourself for their mistakes. I stress over whether I caused someone pain or if I made them think something or do something. These are all things we need to work on as we grow and work on changing fallacies. I need to express myself even if it might hurt someone's feelings because it would be worse to hurt their feelings after the fact.
Great post. Thanks for sharing!
-rompersb
Dear Jossshhuaa,
ReplyDeleteI also constantly take part in emotional work. Being an optimist seems like the only rational thing to do when times seem rough or "too hard". Your right, it does take a lot of work to overlook the bad things that happen in life, but even though it is, I can not help picking out the good things. Many people I interact with are negative most of the time. They always worry about what bad could happen, and they wonder why bad things do in fact happen. It is the certain mindset that people have that affect their everyday lives. People have a choice to make their attitude a good or bad one in any situation. The more that concept is understood, the better off people will be!
-lead_succeed