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Tempering Feelings
there will be a little venting
Feelings are explained as conscious experiences. We become aware of them and try to figure them out or understand what we’re going through inside. We feel many things like being sad or happy, angry or disgusted, fed up, surprised, fearful, nervous, and so on. Even stress is a feeling. Fucked up is a feeling. Being mesmerized is a feeling becoming spellbound or captivated. When we eat enough, we feel full. It’s said feelings are felt, but what’s important is how we react to them.
Like I want to take a bat to someone’s car every time they cut me off and miss me by a hair or when someone drives so fast and ignores the red light going through it. I’m trying to figure out how not to get so bent out of shape by drivers today, but it’s not working. It seems to be my nemesis. So, I try to enjoy the rest of the day whenever I’m not in a car driving.
The best I do and that helps sometimes is to enjoy the scenery as I drive, the huge, lovely trees, plants, designs of buildings, and learning more about what’s new that’s being built or finding places I’ve never seen before or been inside of before, and whether they are of interest or not. I keep focused on driving but try to glimpse the better things that surround me, rather than focusing on the person that just passed on the right and almost hit me.
