Emotions

Do we control them or do they take charge of us? When we strongly project ourselves in a situation, is it the depiction of a certain emotion? I asked a friend if he ever felt jealous about the success or power someone else is enjoying. To this, he immediately said, "Jealously has never been one of my emotions. I might feel only happy. In a negative state, I might feel I am not good enough and I need to get there somehow. Jealously, never!"   That was when I began wondering about the myriad emotions that overpower us in a single day. Oh my god! Aren't we a medley of emotions? We are able to successfully swing from being happy to being moody, from being sensitive to being angry, from being jealous to being joyful! Different states of mind give rise to different emotions. Does this mean situations takes charge of emotions? If one does not emote at all, then he falls under the 'weird' category. If nothing in life is going to touch a person, if no rain or shine can make one smile or whine - then what is he made up of? Is it then right to say that he is not a emotional person but a very practical one. Cannot be true at all, for we are all made up of emotions. We allow them to take over us! And trust me, it is not wrong.