In the end, it all comes down to will power.

Resigning yourself to the dark clouds or venturing underneath them for the white fluffy ones.

 

Researching the nature of emotions for my current ceramic project, I was enlightened to the fact that there are certain 'laws' which emotions carry. In other words, as humans, our minds think in certain ways and so various specific situations and events will affect people generally in much the same way, emotionally. And, the consequent actions resulting form this creation of certain emotions will also be similar as various things like logic are employed within us. It was reassuring to me that other humans may possibly react to things in a similar way to me and too, go through emotional elation and turmoil as the case may be. Of course there are always the exceptions to the rule but for the most part, humans are emotive creatures and have little control over how situations make them feel.
It is the coping mechanisms which I think perhaps present a greater variation from one human to the other. If a case of negative emotional turmoil should occur, some people successfully ignore, some people face the problem immediately and let go and some people employ the method of pretending that everything is ok and carrying on as normal, trying to ignore but in fact being incredibly aware of the crazy emotions and exacerbating them by trying to act as if everything is fine. Some things just have to be faced up to and that's that; otherwise the cycle continues and the events cause further emotions and in short, a mess and a half. Alot easier siad than done, but the good thing is that emotions are pretty replaceable so good situations are well capable of creating positive emotions. We just have to seek them out.*

A twinkling gold flash from the blue!

And then one day something happens completely unexpectedly and you have no idea how to feel about it, how to carry on from it, but you can't help thinking that it was meant to be. In many ways, we're masters of our own fate and we make conscious decisions. Have to just keep the hope that the future consequences will be as happy and wonderful as you absolutely wish they will be*