Has your journey with intense emotions been a long and arduous one? Vacillating between an emotional rollercoaster to pure numbness?
Plumbing the emotional depths is not for the faint of heart.
Yesterday, I watched a movie called Equals. A sci-fi, futurist tale that explores what might happen if we genetically engineered our emotions out of our DNA. The premise was that strong emotions were responsible for most of the conflict and chaos on our planet, even our almost destruction.
It would be so much better if we could just use logic and reasoning, right?
From the perspective of a deep feeler, this version of our future reality felt so cold, detached and avoidant. No physical contact, no smiling, no crying, no laughter, everyone living in their own separate pod (ok, maybe that’s a little bit of heaven for introverts). But absolutely no sex. Talk about dystopian.
Those whose emotional genes mysteriously turned back on, were considered diseased and insane. Hauled off by authorities to a quarantine facility and then…
I won’t spoil it for you, because it’s a very important watch. Commentary on how far we’ve strayed from our emotional intelligence. How our materialistic and highly technological culture drives us further apart, rather than closer together. How we worship…
