Your Should Be In Control

(Part 1 of the “ Inside  Out” Realization Rant)

So the other day I actually got out of the house for the first time in the summer

I know

Shocking.

I went and saw the movie Inside Out, and although I am fully aware of the movie being cartoon and knowing what actually goes on in our brain ( sorry to break it to you if you thought that was how our emotions lived) this movie just re-opened my eyes to the different emotions we go through not only through our life but on a day to day bases.

I also noticed that at points of our lives these emotions can be heightened, depending on what our surrounding is and what is going on in our life at those moment. 

These thoughts also had me thinking of how sometimes we let the statement above get way too out of hand. Yes, our surrounding atmosphere does have an effect on our emotions, but sometimes we take away the sprinkle they should add on to it and just give it full on control.

This comes from the fact that if we are attached to something we pull our contentment, misery, rage, and fear out of this one thing. 

So, although it might seem okay and or healthy in that moment… it’s completely not.

For a minimized example of this situation, lets say you believe your complete happiness comes from the jar in your cupboard that reads “ nutella” and you eat from it 

EVERY

SINGLE

DAY

you know… to be happy.

And you feel like you have found something that will keep you happy for the rest of your life and you feel that this is totally emotionally healthy.

However one day they stop making it.

yes

they stop making nutella

crushing not only your happiness but millions of others who have put there emotions in the hands of nutella

(This got so off topic I forgot what I was even writing about…)

Now that this happened you might think that “That’s okay, I’ll get over it and lead my own emotions from then on…learning from my mistake.”

But no.

What happens next is that you let “nutella” Consume your emotions even more by making you depressed for the fact that there is no more “ nutella”

You probably see where I’m going with this.

So to end this very long and unecessary rant ; it is important to control your own emotions and know that you can make even the worst of times the best… it just depends on you changing the perspective of things in your head.

Well… This was NOT what I was going to write about for today but I guess I’ll save that for next time because that is another rant that will make this one even longer, so I will call this Part 1 of the “ Inside  Out” Realization Rant ;-)

xx