Sunday, 20th January 2008 - 11:30 am

Due Date - 15th January 2008. Extended to - 16th January 2008. Submitted - 20th January 2008. Why?

Well, the reason is --> Because emotion clouds judgment.

I sat down on Wednesday evening (the 16th) to write my blog entry, but couldn't think of a satisfactory and still publicly-describable incident from my life to write about. I thought that if I give it more time, I might come up with a better topic. I had hope. I had the 'emotion' of hope. This clouded my judgment of "What if Mrs. Balan gets angry?" "What if she refuses to correct my assignment saying I was late?", however, it did cloud my judgment. It wasn't that I had a pile of work waiting for me, it was just the mere hope that I could write something better that kept me from writing it on Wednesday. That is an example of how emotion clouds my judgment.

I could've said that I had been thinking about this assignment day-in and day-out, every passing moment for the past 5 days, but that would be a lie. I could've easily stated that, but the emotion of guilt, and that of lying, kept me from doing so.


Now for the counter-example. I realised this morning that I had a TOK assignment due, and decided to finish it off once and for all. Again, the lack of a suitable topic. Then this problem itself became my topic. I thought to myself, I could lie "I had written my assignment on Thursday, but my computer crashed" "I had written it on a piece of paper and TDQ stole it" etc. etc. This resulted from the feeling of fear, fear that Mrs. Balan would get angry, and would be annoyed that the assignment due 5 days back was being written today. However, emotion does not always cloud your judgment. The emotion of guilt (which could also be seen as a moralistic explanation of honesty) led me into saying that I was in fact writing my entry on a Sunday morning, at 11:30.