"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; the emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Sometimes it's a challenge to know what's going on with our emotions. They seem all over the map, and while we have some awareness that our discombobulated state is disconcerting to those around us, we have little power to stop what triggers us. We're along for the ride. And sometimes later, in hindsight, we understand what was going on with us, and sometimes we don't ever know.
The only thing that's certain is that how we feel will change, so if we just hang in there, confusion may well shift into clarity, or determination, or anger, or joy.
I ride the waves of my emotions with a certain detachment, and the knowledge that just because I feel something doesn't necessarily make it true.
