Gaining hold of your emotions
Gaining hold of your emotional is something a lot of people tend to struggle with. A lot of people allow their emotion determine their decision making which is not always the best choice. Your present state or situation of things shouldn't be a criteria for making rational decision that could have drastic effects on your life.
Your ability to control the situation around you. Emotions run wild once given the chance to take control of situations.
Once heard a story of a young man who had only recentle just lost his job, he was married with two kids. Struggled to keep up with the needs of his family. His rent was almost due and it felt like hell was let loose.
He tried as much as possible to seek out other job opportunities but nothing seemed forthcoming. He turned to his friends for help but to his surprise,they only took pity but all claimed to be going through difficult times. His family was living from hand to mouth. He kept on borrowing one thing or the other with the promise to pay back.
He took out a loan to feed his family and pay other long overdue money he had borrowed. Nothing was looking good at the point. The hope for a better tomorrow was quite blurry. He was devastated,frustrated,lost in thoughts,almost out of options.
He stood up one day,fed of of all the shame,disgrace and disappointment he had suffered from family and friends and jumped off a cliffed into a river where he drowned and died.
A young lady,a victim of rape who has been through a lot of trauma trying to find redemption for herself. Fighting for the cause so all of young girls out there won't suffer the same way she did. The perpetrator being allowed to roam the streets.
No sanction,no jail term,no trial,all for the sake of being the son of a well known figure. She writes down a statement at the station but it doesn't go beyond that table.
Treacherous acts are covered off,the weak are left to suffer, wallow in their pain with little or no pity. She get up one day determined to get revenge and stalks this young man who has put her in so much anxiety and puts a knife through his chest.
Though knowing she will go to jail or probably be hanged for it. Her life had lost it essence ever since the incidence. Not denying the fact that she killed him,she stays there by the body and a part of her feels a sigh of relief,a bit of that burden has been lifted
Always learn to think with your head not your heart. Never make your predicament inflence your decision making. Contain your emotion,gain control of it. Do things because it is the right thing to do not because it is what your situation permits. There is always a calm after the storm. So make sure that you are able to withstand your storm till it calms.
