emotion clouding judgement

the title of this post itself has 3 ways of knowing - emotion, which is explicity stated; perception and reasoning which together make up judgement. ones judgement can vary depending on how he or she perceieves a situation and what he can reason from it. perception can vary with emotional changes in humans. hence it is a very obvious connection between ones judgement and the emotion they are experiencing. one can find a number of examples of when emotion clouded ones judgement whether it be history (hitler's unstable, oppressive and violent childhood leading to the way he behaved with the Jews and other innocent people), the current affairs (indians' reactions to the india-australia cricket match at sydney) or within oneself (i will present a case on how emotion clouded my judgement and led me to do what was wrong).
about 10 years ago my immediate family, the family of my aunt and i went to corbet national park to spot some tigers and other animals in action. therefore my parents and aunt decided, that in order to be close to "the action", we were going to stay in teh houses in the middle of the national park. being a jungle, there were a terrifying number and species of reptiles, both of which i had never seen in my life in mumbai. i woke up in the middle of the night around 2 am and saw 3-4 lizards right above me on teh ceiling. it was one of the most terrifying moments of my life...(irrational (?) fear of reptiles). i tried to keep calm for a few minutes watching them constantly (all the while doing exactly as sigmund freud had said abt humans' attraction to the ugly bein as intense as our attraction towards teh beatiful). and then one of them moved. that was the last straw. i created a huge ruckus, woke everyone up and got everyone to transfer us to a comfortable, expensive, lizar-less hotel. i slept the night peacefully.
however, on teh safari early next morning we were told how we had missd tiger activity that had taken place barely a few hundred metres frm where we were initially staying!!! what a waste of labour, money and time!!
although i regret reacting the way i did, my fear and disgust still remains and it is soo strong that if i were put in the same situation, knowing the outcome, i might do the same thing again. this is the power of emotion.