The Nature of Emotion

I always find it a little funny when people treat emotion as some kind of super natural force. You can see it demonstrated when people use phrases such as "logic isn’t that important to me, just emotion" or "follow your heart" and so on and so forth.

I find it funny because emotion is within the realm of reality and there is no reason to treat it as "something beyond it" or anything that we should guild our life by (at least not core issues, emotions should simply be a factor, not thee factor).

An emotion is simply a reaction based on a value in relation to a fact(s).

For example: You love your cat, your cat gets hit by a car, you are sad.

Cat = Value

Cat getting hit by car = Fact

Sad = Reaction

This seems very basic but it is so often evaded with out a second glance.

To say "I think emotion is more important then logic" makes about as much sense and 2+2=50. Emotions are the result of your relationship with reality and therefore logic.

Emotion should be used as a way to understand your relationship with reality but not as a valid way to live your life or a position on epistemology (The philosophy of how one obtains knowledge or truth). If you do then you life will simply be and endless circle that you walk through blindly, always making the same mistakes and never changing for the better. If you do find some happiness it is simply a matter of luck.

You can either live in harmony with reality or spend your life fighting it with irrational ideals. One ultimately results in life, the other ultimately in death.