The Importance Of Emotions

Emotions play a huge part in our lives, they help us react to situations and news that we encounter. I would even venture to say that they have a large effect on the way that we reflect and feel about the quality of our life. Whether it is a happy good life, a sad dark life or a “the world is out to get me” life. In this paper I plan to talk about the body’s response to emotions and how a person’s personality plays a huge part in how they experience emotions. I will explain these concepts and then contrast myself and a friend of mine in how our personalities and the emotions we experience affect the outlook we respectively have on life. The definition of the word “emotion” is, “the body’s multidimensional response to any event that enhances or inhibits one’s goals” (Floyd, 2011, p. 246). Within the category of emotions, there are three

There are three parts to our personality that make us unique and affect how we see our quality of life agreeableness, extroversion, and neuroticism (Floyd, 2011). Agreeableness is defined as how collaborative, person-able, and good-natured a person is. The more agreeable a person is, studies have shown, the happier they are and the more capable they are to handle their emotions and stress (Floyd, 2011). Extroverted people tend to look at/for the positives of situations, they are also personable to new people they meet. This positivity and openness to others and situations causes them, in general, to be happier with their lives (Floyd, 2011). Each of us has a unique personality that plays an important part in how we view our lives, to display how emotions and personality affect out looks on life, I am going to compare and contrast my personality and the emotions I tend to experience more often, with that of a friend I have whom I am close