Emotions

Emotion is a subject which is most indecisively documented in the disciple of Science. Psychology also has never seen any scientist to document this area in a phased and judicious manner. Freud, the originator of psychoanalysis, also dealt the subject only on applied lines of science by limiting the discussion to stress, anxiety and depression.

However interesting is the subject one cannot deal with the subject holistically because of its ambiguous complexity and variability at the same time. I being a mechanical engineer by training will talk only on the contemporary issues involved with the subject and try to present the various lines of thoughts. The points discussed may be direct and also harsh to different set of people but I assure that my observations and inferences are true with Indian or if extended to oriental lines of societal thinking. The description, knowingly kept in first person as I want to project them as my own and not something as judgmental set of evidence.

Lets discuss a very unique set of emotions first, which is termed as fear. Fear basically ‘evolved’ in humans as a response to the stimuli related with survival. An attack or life threatening stimulus induces fear in the subject which helps to survive. If someone attacks you or generate a set of conditions which affects or challenges the very sustainability of your life fear comes into the picture so that a necessary alarm is activated, thus soliciting a corrective action to either curb the same or escape from it. In a way this is a very positive emotion as without it one is unable to assess the impending danger to survive. However in the modernistic context this emotion creates a lot of problems in decision making capability of an individual by triggering some unnecessary actions all at the same time. Thus a problem which may be small in scale may overtly be exaggerated to unprecedented scales and provoking panic. When the panic button is pressed the fear psychosis initiates like an atomic bomb chain reaction. If a subject is exposed to chronic fear facing situations the physical response to the same first rises to the panic situation then the graph of physiological activity goes down to calm state even if the fear stimuli persists, this is result of artificial development of state of tranquility. But when the fear stimuli is re administered to the subject at a higher or same level after a period again panic button is pressed.
Such an individual then suffers substantial change in mental levels leading to either extreme hardening of other emotions or extreme vulnerability to emotions. In second case the individual looks forward to resolve fear situation by socializing or finding comforts in the most stress relieving activity. In way I am saying that a person lying in this region still has some scope to recover if gets proper heeding to his other senses. But on the opposite loneliness or absence of a proper channel for release can again harden him or her to extreme toughening level. Practically this can be seen in people working in constant fear situations such as War Veterans or people occupying position where substantial stakes are involved in form of money of lives.

Now I will take the subject mostly to people lying in the age group of after teen and before 35. Why this set?
Because this age group consists of youngsters who primarily have various individual and societal tasks to be performed say career goals, ambitions and stable relationships. Also a particular attribute associated with these people is that they are early birds. This phrase may be flashy and gaudy but I denote it with kids who are not expected to make mistake after their teenage. Also when earlier freedom related and instability related issues are resolved these youngsters are now expected to not only fly but also expected to satisfy other societal and peer obligations.

One thing is clear that emotions are the last thing that counts and matter. No one needs a stupid romeo anymore when it comes to relationships and also hobbying wont fetch any major rewards in the career. The statement is not negative but as its said the truth hurts.