*Essay* Humans...

Humans are the smartest species in the world. Over a long period of time, humans adapted to a changing world. They evolved in many characteristics that help defines us today. These characteristics did not emerge all at once. They evolved over the past 6 million years of the human history. Although there are plenty of characteristics for humans, I think emotions and feelings are the definitive characteristic of a human being.

         We are probably one of the hardest species to deal with; emotion wise. Here’s quote from Dale Carnegie, when dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. Almost all creatures have some sort of feelings and emotions. Human emotions are the most complicated one. We tend to hide our feelings a lot. It starts off with something small, when there is more and more of those small things it will turn into a big thing. Some people are good at hiding their emotions. I can’t say I’m good at it, but I do it a lot. It is like your dying inside but you’re smiling and acting like everything is perfect. When one of your friends asked you, “what’s wrong?” you wanted to say everything, but you didn’t but said nothing. It is not a good feeling. I think it’s more like a trust issue. There are cases where people who don’t know what their feelings are. It is like a mixture of a lot of emotions together. Showing your feeling is not always a good thing. When you show you feeling to your crush, it’s not always a good thing. Especially if you guys are good friend, she might not feel comfortable around you anymore then the friendship breaks. Another example is when you angry, you want to show it to everyone. If they are not the reason why you’re angry, you shouldn’t be letting it out on others. To me one of the strongest emotions of all time is love. There actually no real meaning of love, until you found that special someone to give meaning to it. Love gives hopes to humans and encourages them to do better for their partner. Love can also drive people crazy because once the love breaks it remains with you for a life time. It is one of the sweetest and most painful emotions. Emotional pain hurts more than physical pain because physical pain doesn’t hurt forever but emotional pain can stay with you for a life time.

Our emotions affect our everyday life. When we wake up in the morning feeling happy, everything will seem to a bit better than waking up feeling grumpy. When we in a good mood, we can affect people around us. When at work or school we will do better and focus more when we are in a good mood. On the other hand, when we are in a bad mood, we get all grumpy and pissed off. It will not affect yourself, but people around you. Other peoples might change their views of you because of your action, but it’s hard to control your emotions sometime. We will waste the time on thinking about the stuff that makes us feel that way.

Our emotion also affects our action. Even though emotions are just what we feel but it can lead to physical contact. When someone said something bad about you, you get up and punch that person. There weren’t any physical contact when that person said bad stuff about you. What that person said, caused you to have that uncomfortable feelings inside, that you just want to release it. Here’s a similar example from Dr Chio Ugochukw. He said “If we feel an injustice has been done to us, our emotion of anger rises up. Our first thought is to strike back. This is a one dimensional response which might not always be effective in this day and age.” Our thought is what makes the action happen.

Human’s feeling and emotions change very fast. We feel happy when something good happened or when we are having fun. Here is a little poem from By Natalie

Feelings go up and feelings go down
There are feelings inside us all spinning around.
Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're bad
But feelings are something that everyone has.
Being shut out and feeling unsafe are feelings that
I think that
Everyone
Hates.

Our feeling seem to be changing more often then you even notice it. When things are going good we think positive and we are just in a good mood. When things turned bad, our emotion changes in less than a minute. When someone said or do something we don’t like we take it inside and repeat it in our head. These kinds of feelings don’t stay with us forever. It goes away but it comes back when we think about it. Here is another example from a site I was looking at.

For years it was believed that if you could inspire people to change their attitudes and beliefs, behavior would change. However, we now know that attempts to change people's behavior by changing attitudes or beliefs are usually unsuccessful.

Well, in my own opinion I think when you get inspired by someone your attitude will change. Not only your attitude but the way you look at things and your view towards it. I was inspired by this person’s page on tumblr called “StayPositive” he post a lot of quotes about life and relationship. It inspired me a lot and especially when I’m in a bad mood. His quote changed my mood. It might not work on everyone but it certainly worked on me.

In conclusion, emotions are what makes us human unique and different from other species. Our emotions are complicated and hard to understand. Every emotion affects us and our days. It also affects our actions. Emotion changes so fast that you might not even notice it.”The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.”said Bangs Lester. What does being a human mean to you?