Emotional Reflection

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Emotion is a vague state that we experience when we are exposed to different events and circumstances in our lives, and it’s part of the qualities that make us human .We all experience emotion in different ways, and it affect us in everything that we do, it affect our thought process our livelihood and our daily action that comes in many different way. Hochschild reading help us understand how emotions are socially constructed because in our live we always try to suppress those emotions and that we sometime rely on people opinion to tell us how we should feel. Hochschild help us see what happen when our managing of emotion are sold as labor, and what define the value of our smile and what are the reason behind these emotions. The emotion
Moreover, for me I couldn’t understand why I was feeling so happy or so relieve. I’m guessing my emotional experience violated the social norm idea of what a person supposed to feel when they go through a break up or they just been hurt by that person they had cared about. Society 88888have created these Mental chunks where we have this believe that when someone have hurt us, or we going through a break up then we should be going through this grieving stage for that particular situation. Because I wasn’t desperate in knowing why he wanted a break, or I wasn’t even bargaining with him in trying to fix whatever that was wrong or even being upset over the situation ,I guess all these emotions I didn’t feel violated the emotion norms. How and what I did to manage my misfitting feeling was after he ask me for the break and I told him to take his break, I went over everything in my head and just realize that there was plenty fish in the sea and if he truly cared about me he would of just answer the question and didn’t make a big deal out of it, and I realize that thank God I wasn’t in love with him and that my feeling for him wasn’t that strong and that I could deal with even though I liked him. The techniques I used was basically telling, convincing myself that it was God way of telling me he was not the one, and it must be true because I been praying about and just basically telling myself he was just not

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