What if?: We had NO Emotions.

What if you were lifeless? What if one day you woke up and felt nothing? You had no pain, fear, sadness or happiness. What if you had no emotion; you felt absolute nothing?

There are times in everyone’s life where they have their happiest and saddest moments, where they remember the first time they were hurt by someone, the first time they fell in love. But what if we never had these moments and lived our lives as cold heartless people. What if we all became part of the phlegmatic group; Part of a group where we show no emotion. How would our lives be?

As a person I always act upon my emotions. I become very emotional. Remembering my uncle’s death, a year ago still brings tears to my eyes. During that time I had become so sensitive. I was incredibly upset for months and could not stop crying. I remember wishing that all the pain could go away, that everyone would be okay again. I wished that my grandmother would forget about the incident so that she could be her normal self again. Since his death was so sudden, my family was shocked, we still did not believe it actually happened. We felt as if we were all having a bad dream, and that we would wake up from it soon. I hated seeing everyone so upset, I hated the fact that I missed him so much and I just wished nothing would have changed. At the time, I wondered how things would be if we did not feel any emotions.

What if we just went on with our lives as if nothing had happened; we did not remember the incident. Would life not be easier? If we were not held back from such incidents we would still have the will to keep moving forward. If I had not been so depressed from the absence of my uncle I would have been stronger academically and mentally. Being emotionless would in some ways be easier…but would we always want to have “poker faces” or to be so laconic? What about the moments when we are the happiest, I would never want to forget those memories because thinking of them makes me feel good, it gives me a reason to live. With our emotions we become moral, we have ethics. We feel bad when we do something wrong and we feel good when we do a good deed. Emotions in some ways help us. Our world would be a place of cold heartless and unethical people. Many things are the way they are because of how people feel. If we were not sympathetic, doctors would not have found cures for diseases. If people did not have feelings we would not have clubs for changing the world. Since we do have emotions we try to be good. Some of us do not commit crimes because we know of how bad it is. We feel the horrible guilt after lying or cheating. We understand our lives better and why things are the way they are. We feel wanted and connected with emotions. We understand how everything happens for a reason, how some emotions could make life perfect and make us happy.

Although at times we wish we felt nothing, emotions could help us. They help us become better human beings. We become warm which helps us appreciate life and understand the people around us and world we live in.