I got to thinking today.. What are feelings and where do they come from? This just spiraled in to a lot of deep thoughts and raised more questions about these things that we all have. What makes our mind decide that we are embarrassed and not happy when you finally realize that the reason the guy at the counter had a huge smile on his face and almost laughing was not because he was dazzled with your smile and charm but because your dress was indeed tucked in to your underwear? What is it that makes us feel something for one person but not the other? What connects them to what we hear, see, smell? Think about it.. Matthew McConaughey is famous because just the mear sight of him makes women feel all hot and bothered.. and they don't play MmmBop during a funeral scene in a movie..music makes you feel too. Who named feelings or emotions.. (whatever you want to call them)? How did sad and excited get to be sad and excited? I had an emotion the other day when eating the most delicious donut that was filled with fresh strawberries and cream cheese that was frankly indescribable. If I want to name that emotion who do I need to notify? Do turtles feel emotions? How can something that is just a feeling make you do crazy things and how do some of them just take over you? I mean you have to admit.. we are talking about things that are really really powerful. Everyone has them.. not everyone shows them as much as some people but they have them.. it’s how we express them that makes us unique.
I have always been a curious person.. if I want to know something I am usually set on finding the answer. I knew I had to start with the brain. I remembered in one of my college classes having to memorize parts of the brain and in order to remember anything I had to make up funny little ways to remember it… and this popped in to my head.. amygdale.. amy has feelings for dale.. I couldn’t remember what the amygdale did I just knew it had to do with feelings so I looked it up. Amygdale- a pair of neuron groups located deep within the medial temporal lobes—when strong emotions are triggered this area becomes especially active when we have intense emotions and such as passion, anger, fear etc. Ok.. cool this is triggered when experience emotions.. but where the heck did they come from in the first place?? Obviously this triggered an emotion.. aggravation! I decided that I didn’t have time to ponder on such things as this so I got back to work.
Wouldn’t you know though that someone else had an answer for me not even ten minutes later. Do yall know that old song “Turn, turn, turn, for every season…” well it came on my Pandora and it made me think of the Bible verse Ecclesiastes 3:4 there is.. “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance” Jesus Himself Wept as well. After I thought about this verse some more I think I got my answer for these powerful things that I had no logical explanation of where they came from.. they are a gift from God. That is a lot to take in if you ask me… not all of them are hunky dory feelings..I mean there are several feelings and emotions that make us uncomfortable. But I’m pretty sure He gave us these emotions as guides. There are things that we do that make us feel guilty, anxious, angry, sad etc and when we feel this way it teaches us to do the right thing. I think He uses feelings to guide us to understand His purpose in our lives and His plans. How could we ever even begin to understand what Jesus did for us and how much love and selflessness it required if we were not our selves able to feel these things? If you think about emotions in this way it kind of makes you appreciate them a little more and not hide them. But I’m pretty sure that it would take someone a little more.. we will just call it well-adjusted.. than me to really wrap their head around this. It did not answer all my questions because frankly I started to feel overwhelmed.. but there it is.. just sharing some thoughts… And how does that make you feel? J
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