Thank you Sweta :).. Glad you liked the post, I have often wondered “What’s in for me” and turns out there is a lot more than I had thought of :).

Thank you for sharing the article :).. Look forward to hearing more from you. Always a delight to meet someone with such similar interests :)

Your blog is fantastic!!Keep writing more…….

So true Nikhil, I don't think there can be anyone without any emotions and if there were, I would really wonder how they live!?!

I agree, Vinay. Emotions are the seeds of motivation. In fact, I think, emotionless person can never stay motivated. Positive emotions are indeed necessary to motivate us, rather I would say that they can even be sufficient condition to succeed under certain circumstances.

You have correctly said that positive emotions drives us towards our goal. However, In contemporary pragmatic economic world order, emotions have taken a back seat. Showing emotions is seen as a sign of weakness and unprofessional. I think, emotions don’t get their due share of respect. Most people in today’s world are raising their intellectual quotient at the cost of their emotional quotient.
I highly doubt the sustainability of such method of working. Emotional suppression might lead to contagion dehumanizing effect in all the spheres of life, personal or professional.

I am eager to know your thoughts on the same. Thanks

Thank you Nikhil :). I think it is a very nice point you brought out, it is only when our mind is subjected to a few questions that we think and the inception of ideas is almost always a fascinating part!
Perhaps Nikhil, and I also think it depends on how we define a positive or a negative emotion. I would reiterate at the cost of appearing repetitive that an emotion which drives us towards our goals, an emotion that helps us is a positive one as opposed to the one which holds us back!
A lot of definitions I agree are societal implications and it also depends on how much we are ready to dissociate ourselves from the society and sometimes our own judgement as well! And I believe we do not have to sacrifice anything to reach wisdom, wisdom sometimes could take the role of acknowledging the scenario around us and deciding how much we let it influence us.
I certainly love the idea of going deeper into a thought Nikhil, any ideas are always welcome and almost always open for an argument :). That is the only way I know to grow :)

Cheers,
V+

Dear Vinay, thanks for the appreciation. I respect your thinking but my views somewhat differ. You pointed out that ‘all emotions are divine’ which I think is subject to deeper thinking. What I think of emotions is that some of them are partly divine while others are a result of societal evolution. For instance, emotions of pleasure and pain is divine but emotion of jealousy is an output of societal evolution. Emotions are also subject to your life experiences and knowledge. Like they say, knowledge lays down the path to wisdom but at the cost of your innocence. The thing is we have to sacrifice our innocence to achieve wisdom. Now it is left for individual to decide what they prefer to chose – innocence or wisdom.

I appreciate your belief in ‘simplicity of thoughts’ but could not resist myself from going deeper on this one. I hope you don’t mind. :)

Dear Nikhil, thank you for your thoughts. I very much appreciate the thought you shared here. It’s a very interesting line of thought you mentioned here. However much I’d like to believe jealousy as an objective front, I somehow believe that it is a very subjective idea. But I do see your point as well, a life without jealousy is certainly the high road in life. Perhaps a level of evolution as well. But I also believe in the simplicity of thoughts and the importance of each emotions including jealousy. For me perhaps I don’t think I’d associate myself with a life without jealousy. I perhaps believe that I’m quite a jealous fellow, and the only factor I’d like to see is the constructive form of it, that form which elevates us to a better part of life. I still find the concept of a perfect life a little hard to relate to. I’d believe all emotions are divine, including jealousy as long as we work them for us. If life without that is possible , kudos to that but I’d certainly prefer a life with it and that working in my favour.

Thank you for the thoughts Nikhil, glad that it opened up a new line of ideas. Always a pleasure to brainstorm thoughts :)

As a child I used to be jealous but as I grew old the Jealousy factor completely disappeared. I don’t get jealous of anything, anymore. Rather I get inspired if I find it worth appreciating. Communicating it to the concerned person depends on my comfort level, but jealously never props up – never, ever. After contemplating over it for some time, I found out that the reason behind loss of jealousy emotion is ‘belief in self’ and ‘respect for qualities of others’.

I think below mentioned thought might prove helpful in heading towards zero jealousy, though the journey for me was quite natural.

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” ~ Master Bruce Lee

I couldn’t agree more Preethi, It is definitely tough to find genuine people out there and the real ones are sometimes afraid to bring out that in them. It kinda feels that they are masking the real ones in order to avoid getting hurt. It probably is for the best, or else it is sometimes too easy for a few people to take advantage of some !

totally agree with you :) once i realized that it frankly did not matter how the other person reacted, either way… things are much easier. Fact is its tough to come across genuine people these days. when we do come across one…guess its tough to believe.

Thank you Preethi :) .. Pleasure to hear from you. I think most people don’t realize if we are really happy for them. I used to keep asking why, they I realized why I am doing this – I realized the only reason was that I was feeling actually happy doing that. The moment focus went back to this, things started feeling a lot simpler and easier. People are weird and I guess so are we :D .. Best is to try and keep guessing the ways and means and something or the other seems to be new each time!