The Perfect Match
In all these 11 years of being a student, I
have tried hard to have good grades, to be an excellent student like my class
is and to try my best everyday just for a number.
The
thing is according to this number or grade I was intelligent, but I still found
myself stuck, stressed, frustrated and couldn't figure out why, so in my short
life I learned that being intelligent and acting in intelligence is a completely
different thing and that kind of bridge between these two is called emotional
intelligence. Emotional intelligence is when you become aware of your emotions
and those of the people around you and you use them to guide your behavior and
your actions, so you act intelligent.
In the society we live in, it has become
crucial to have or dominate emotional intelligence, to control your emotions
and not let your emotions control you.
Emotional intelligence is important for
achieving your goals in life, for having a family, raising children, for
achieving your dream job, for being a good person etc. This skill can change
the way you see the world, can change the way you see people around you and can
change the way you see yourself.
But I have also learned that it is extremely
hard, and it is hard to dominate your feelings. I suffer from anxiety, an actual
disease that eats your mind, makes harder to control your feelings and tries to
put you against you and some days you just want to scream and let your thoughts
and emotions control you and many like me have or are in this kind of
situations and that is okay, you know why? because we are not perfect and we
don't always feel good but that is totally fine and that is why emotional
intelligence isn't a switch that if you decided to pressed it today, now you
have it.
Emotional intelligence is a path, necessary to get to the end because you'll need to beat obstacles, you'll find people and things trying to push
you back but with time, patience, faith and effort, you will eventually get
there.
“You may not control all the events that
happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” Dr. Maya Angelou
By Natalia Rojas, Step 10.