Dealing With Extreme Emotions

Alyia Hall
English 1- 4th
1-8-15

The Importance of Dealing With Extreme Emotions

` Big traffic jam today on the way to work? Did it make you just want to scream in rage? Maybe taking a deep breath and calming down will solve the problem. Take a few steps back and breath, focus on the events that did go in the right direction that morning, evening, or night. Dealing with extreme emotions is important , because it will build patience and keep yourself out of harms way.
Learning how to keep patience and stay calm when in a scary, uncomfortable, and “jaw dropping” situations is an important “must” in everyone’s lives. For example, in Elie Wiesel’s memoir “night”, Elie is forced to watch his father be beaten and not being able to help or do anything about it. The only reaction he could show was the fear, shock, and anger in his eyes from what they were doing to his dad. Elie would hold in the patients and hope that someday it would all come to an end. And because Elie stayed quiet, he saved himself from being beaten for his attitude toward the action being given to his father. Turning the other cheek, or staying silent in dangerous situations, and thinking of a better place is sometimes the best possible decision anybody can make for themselves.
Dealing with emotions, such as, anger, sadness, or guilt are all feelings that could cause a harmful reaction. For example, if, Tom is driving along on the interstate and his whole family is in the car with him, the driver, and it’s his “duty” to keep them safe for the day. And he decides to take them out and go to the movie, when all the sudden a crazy driver cuts him off nearly running him off the road. Even though with all the anger inside of him telling him to chase that driver down, he didn’t he knew the best thing to do was to let it go, and carry on.
Therefore, learning to control thoughts is a great importance in dealing with extreme emotion because it will help build a “self-containment” for your patience and to also keep you and your family out of harms way.

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