Emotions Clouding Judgement

How Emotion Clouds judgement

At different points in time we humans feel different things. Usually when we feel happy, everything around us seems happy. When we feel stressed we get irritated by every small insignificant. When we feel sad the environment becomes gloomy. Such situations are faced by all humans in some points of their life. These are not actual situations. These are merely examples of how emotion clouds judgement.

Our judgement depends on our reasoning and our perception. However, different circumstances and our emotions in these circumstances affect our reasoning. The emotions we feel may force us to do something that we do not want to.

An incident can elucidate this better than words.
Rohit Mehra was an IIT Kanpur student. His father did not earn much but managed to get his son first class education through several loans. No doubt Rohit was an exceptionally hard working student. The 4 years at IIT were the toughest academic years of his life. He graduated from the institute with a perfect score. Rohit was hired by Siemens and was to get transferred to the USA. That night Rohit was elated. He and his friends went to party at the school terrace. Rohit was ecstatic and could not control his excitement. He was running and jumping- rejoicing after 4 years of hard work. His friends could not do anything when they saw him jump off the terrace edge...
All his fathers’ loans, all his hard work, all the rewards – wasted. Only because of the excitement that blinded his judgement of things.

Reasoning is only strong when emotion has no part to play in it.
A strong emotion can take the reason out of reasoning.