Friday, May 26, 2006

Spock's Dilemma

Rational thought is what separates homo sapiens from other species, right?

So why do feelings conflict so often with rational thought?  

It's not that the logic isn't sound, it's that it's just not how I feel.  I feel something so contrary to logic that it's hard to convince myself of the truth.  And even when I finally see clearly the soundness of the logic, I still can't wrestle my mind away from irrational emotion.  

Some part of me knows that it's also this emotion that sets us apart, that makes us human, that makes life worth living.  They say that you have to take the highs with the lows in order to truly live.  It just so often feels like the lows outnumber the highs, or that there won't be enough highs coming to ever balance the lows.

1 comment:

Mr. Jeffrey said...

sounds like poker to me