BDS Reflection

After today's conversation, I thought today I'd try to consider emotions and my thoughts more during my writing session. I wanted to write a little bit about my opinions on the topics we touched in class, which hit close to home for me as well. I found that yes, while emotions did creep up, remembering situations my family has gone through, it really does help to take a step back, wait till you can handle those emotions, and continue. This waiting strategy not only can keep the body comfortable when writing, not only the mind focused, but it really helps the quality of the writing as well. Emotions tend to make us look like fools. They creep up on us and begin to control what we think and what we write, so when I noticed I started to feel something like anger or sadness, I took a break. I took some deep breathes, refocusing my attention to the present, and continued. I'm the guy who loves to debate, and emotionally charged points never have the credibility or logic well thought out points do. We can still inspire an emotional reaction without being controlled by emotions ourselves, it just takes practice, brief daily practice (baha).