Emotional Control

“For one thing, right now you are unable to feel real happiness. You find living hard, and even wish you could be reborn as a different person. But you are unhappy now because you yourself chose being unhappy. Not because you were born under an unlucky star.”

It’s not what we are born with but how we make use of the equipment we are given. The past doesn’t determine the present. This idea that you choose to feel emotions seems a little strange, but I’m someone with a deficit in emotional control.

Excerpt From: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga. “The Courage to Be Disliked.” Atria, 2018-05-08. Apple Books.