Monday, January 4, 2016

The power of emotion

When I was a kid my dad used to bring chocolates for me and my brother. Now almost every kids are fond of chocolates. We being in a poor family not used to get very frequently but occasionally my dad used to bring one for us. We used to break it from the middle as we were two. Sometimes we used to fight for the longer piece and used to cry if we don't get. Then my dad used to console why to become emotional for a longer piece, A smaller piece also can be eaten for a longer time. I used to think and said ok I will eat slowly bit by bit and enjoy the same. Chocolate I left it in my childhood but some wrong learning I carried  forward. Which is, I used to think emotional means three things crying , tears and consolation.

Emotional is not a bad thing always. Its something which talks to our heart, flows through veins , drops its power in the blood. When all of this lasts in us,it creates an inner force.  When this inner force meets a positive goal we learn more and earn it. And when this inner force meets some bad  things we become useless. Robert Greene in his great book Mastery mentioned about "vocation". He said when we are child our inner force of knowing somethings is very clear to us. We grow up and we heard peoples daily anxiety.  It made that force fade, emotion gets de-attached and we never become who we are.

Emotions are more powerful than I ever thought. I was enjoying one Bengali band performance in Kolkata. Band culture in Bengal are increasing day be day. The songs frame are changing. When I first saw "Fossils" (A very popular Bengali band) I felt like lost in the crowd. It's so live when they are on stage . Anyway, Everybody was dancing. Great people says mind and body are in sync when we dance. The thrown lyrics was flowing through the veins and we were jumping to entertain us, them and the night. Suddenly I heard one of my friend was shouting for help. I went there and found one guy on the ground. He was dancing standing on a chair and suddenly felt from there. We cleared the crowd and pulled him out and sent him to our college hospital. Is that emotional what we felt for him or this one - He was hurt , his hand got broken, he was lying on the ground shouting the song sang by the band and crying ?