From the mind of critic: “If we don’t control our emotions when directing them toward public officials and world affairs, and forget about what’s happening right in front of our face, which could include evidence that backs up the very argument we’re trying to make, do we do the same in our personal lives? If we think something is amiss, or we’re questioned about what we said or did, do we think it’s a slight and immediately raise our voice, angry up our tone, and immediately become defensive because we feel threatened? Or do we see questions as just that, questions, a want to know information one does not have, and therefore aren’t threatened when somebody doesn’t agree with us or thought we weren’t specific enough? Politics can loom so large, with so much happening all at once, making it hard to know what’s real, what’s fake and what to think. The same can happen in our personal lives, when change comes at us too fast, too much, the wrong change or not at all. To not alienate the people close to us, we must ask ourselves constantly whether we feel threatened, lied to or challenged, and if we do we must tell the people we care about how we feel in a way, that isn’t theatening or challenging. We might have the realization that even if we raise our voice, tone and body language to attend to our defense, that it actually has the opposite effect. That rational thoughts and ideas can’t be shared when we’re all riled up, because heghtened emotions, anger, tone and body langauge aren’t based on logic and facts, but feelings. We all wanna matter, and we all wanna be heard. We can ensure this by not losing our thoughts in the fog of emotion, but strenghten them within the love we have for each other. Whether political or personal, honesty can be scary, but it is the light at the end of the tunnel” 🙂