The past few months have been a rollercoaster. The past week my emotions have been all over the place. One minute I’m calm, the next I’m holding back tears and the next I’m pissed. I’m sure you have experienced something similar.

We like certainty. We want to know when something will be done or end. Will it be prolonged? If so, when is the next end date. When faced with uncertainty we get frustrated. The frustration takes on different forms as we move though a situation. Sadness, joy, anger complacency, all seem to be born out of or contribute to our frustration. For example frustration can cause sadness or we are sad because we are frustrated. We are happy, but only for a short time so we become frustrated. We are frustrated because we may not be experiencing the level of happiness we have in the past, and so on.

So what do we do? We try to control the actions of others or try to justify their actions by placing a label on them. They’re stupid or dumb or idiots or selfish. I know I’m guilty of placing the selfish label on many people, because I feel they know exactly what they’re doing. They’re not dumb or an idiot.

We aren’t going to be able to control the actions of others. We can’t continue to let the actions of a others take control over our emotions, which will cause us further frustration. We need to control how we deal with our own emotions. We need to keep our frustration in check. How we feel is not their fault. it’s our fault.

I always struggle with the mantra, “We are all in this together” because it’s not attainable. I like it, because it gives us a sense of belonging to something bigger than ourselves while working toward a common goal. Being in this all together means you have to to take care of yourself first, so you can be mentally and physically in this with everyone else.

The emotions you feel, I feel. We are as the say, in this together.

Emotions Be Crazy