Day Three: Egg-citing Emotions

"We might be the master of our own thoughts, still we are the slaves of our own emotions." ~author Unknown

Today I am happy for all of the people in my life, friends and family, strangers and acquaintances, who make me feel potently alive. People do this for us in a number of ways, big and small, and not all of those feelings are "good" ones. I use quotes because good is completely subjective and personal, as for me any emotion that reminds me of how deeply I can and do feel, for or about others, is good. The tricky part is, with negative emotions one must learn to control his or her responses in a way that does not damage another, otherwise we do, indeed become a slave of said emotion as suggested by the quote above (and in my mind, this is NOT good).

There have been times in my life where I walked from one day into the next in a soundless void of "unfeeling", or worse a total apathy for almost everything around me. Everything felt like a "Dead Zone" and I thought for sure that if I stayed in that space long enough, I'd simply cease existing. When I finally became fully awake and present in my life, I learned to truly appreciate the things and people who made me feel. I am alive and I relish those effervescent bubbles of emotions that tickle and tingle inside of me. As a writer, channeling those emotions is like getting my veins infused with some magic cocktail that makes the words pour out of me almost faster than I can write or type them! Some refer to this as finding your Muse, but for me it is merely kicking my senses into Warp 8! Perhaps that takes me out of the realm of happy and into a state of pure joy. Whatever it is, I dig it, a LOT!

*Images from dreamstime.com (eggs) & abc.net.au (bubbles)

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