" Feelings Are Untrue And Momentary, Emotions Are Not! "

Have you ever got a really strong feeling about something, but it lasts about a minute or so? I had many of those; for instance, I become upset by one person and suddenly my anger sweeps away in a nanosecond. Sometimes I feel like studying but when I sit to study I don’t feel like studying anymore. It’s quite funny but I’m pretty much sure, we all come across these oddities in life. The following is a good example of such eccentricity in our lives. Nowadays people break up four to five times and get back together. It is because sometimes there were off times where they could not stand being around each other. The problem is not their relationship, problem is that the feelings change and rechange constantly, because the circumstances surrounding the feelings change. We say, "People change, feelings don’t" but in genuine feelings inside the person change very often which changes the demeanour of the person too. Feelings are momentary, what we feel at the particular point of time and nothing remains same after the lapse of time.

As people who change are deceptive or love which change is fake, similarly feelings are also untrue. They change with circumstances and time and are no longer the same. The same feeling could give birth to a different opinion depending on what way we view it.

Our heart’s climate is dynamic, where feelings are like seasons which change, but emotions are like Sun which remains invariably in every climate. Emotions are more similar to conscious thoughts because thought is a deep experience, while feelings are intense or shallow but not deep. Emotion is something which takes more energy to maintain and lasts forever. If someone is punched or hurt, they are only likely to be mad for a brief period of time, but the anger and depression that it arouse might last for a much longer time. We forget something easily which we touch and feel (something related to the material world) but we never forget feelings actuated by experiencing things like love, hate, fear etc in the real world.

Emotions are the things which emanates from memory and feelings are something which are more tangible. Our intelligence is driven and thoughts are guided by feelings, whereas our emotion helps us to experience joy, sorrow, love etc in affective state of consciousness.

When someone hurts us we feel the pain which is transitory but the sadness incurred by that person lasts forever in our heart and mind, leaves an imprint of emotional reaction and side of someone’s character. Similarly when someone embraces and pats with affection and care we feel it for a while and forget but the emotional state and response it brings forth remain forever and true to us in our reminiscences.

We should always trust and rely on our emotions rather than taking decisions by depending on our feelings.

~Sneha Singh