My Irrational Piece

Every once in a while, we’re all overcome by our emotions so much that it serves as a foundation (or an excuse) for clouds to shadow our sense of better judgment. I believe that it’s during these times that we, humans, are actually in our most vulnerable state because more often than not, during times like these, we tend to base all our actions and decisions upon the emotions that we’re experiencing- this is what we call IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR.

During the state of being “irrational” a person throws all sense of being reasonable out the window and straight into the bin. It is during these times that we tend to do all sorts of stupid stuff like say words we don’t actually mean or say things we mean but we didn’t mean to say, break expensive stuff that are the actual causes of the frustration (we always regret it afterwards), come up with stupid lies to break away from all the drama and end up causing more drama, or call our parents “filthy stupid pair of scumbag-whores”… or maybe not.

The concept of being irrational got me into thinking: God separated human from animals by giving us the ability to think for ourselves and invent and reason. For a group of special creatures that are imbued with the ability to think, isn’t it funny that being irrational is as part of being human as is the ability to walk on two legs?

Earlier today, I had a fight with my two younger cousins and the incident answered my question right away. Sure, we were given the ability to think but God also gave us the ability to feel. In actuality, it is not only our ability to think that separates us from animals; it is also our ability to feel- a characteristic solely given to humans that it allowed for the coining of the term “Humanity.”

Most of us, when faced with the mistakes caused by irrational behavior, would try to deny the incident, some of us would acknowledge it and ask the people around us to simply forget the entire thing. There are also some who would go to great lengths just to cover things up and let the mistake be part of undocumented history, while there are some whose sense of judgment is so great that they would be the first one to pull the skeleton out of their closet for the entire world to see. No matter which action we choose to take, I’ve learned that it is important to see that at the end of the day we’re all going to be held liable for it.