"All the world's a stage,/and the men and women merely players"
Does this mean that we are all merely playing at life? Is Shakespeare saying that we aren't really living, but acting out emotions?
Maybe only some people do this. It seems that some react to life based on emotion. Avoiding unpleasant things because it makes them feel bad, or pursuing pleasure for the sake of feeling good. For instance, a guy not asking a girl out because he is afraid of rejection, or having sex as often as possible for the pleasure. Is that really living through emotion though?
In the case of a guy not asking a girl out it is clear that he is forsaking something possibly great for the feeling of comfort and stability. Instead of pursuing something, he is doing nothing. Is that living based on emotion?
Someone who has sex for pleasure is pursuing a pleasurable feeling, but not the possibly greater feeling of being truly close to someone. So, emotion is separate from sensory pleasure.
Emotion comes from emovere, which is Latin for out (ex) move (movere). Emotion is outward movement, but from where?
Is emotion more than a mental and physical process then? It can, of course, be tracked and measured in the brain, but that only answers how emotion exists. Not why. Is emotion more than just feeling good, or feeling sad, or feeling angry, or feeling at all? Maybe emotion goes beyond even the mind, and comes also from the soul.
So, does emotion come from God?
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