Juvenile Emotions

What Jesus also didn’t do was wear his emotions on his sleeve. I brought my kids up with a mantra: Don’t litter your food; don’t litter your mood. In Edward Docxs Self Help, one of the most interesting (and hideous) characters, Nicholas, loses his patience with the annoying Isabella in a way we all can cheer:

“You seem to think just because you feel a thing,

That makes it externally true. You…seem to live

at the mercy of whatever juvenile emotions you are

suffering. And please don’t kid yourself. Isabella.

Because in this you’re just like all the others…