http://www.liveinyourlove.com/2010/04/emotions-are-your-compass.html
just as you cannot control the tides of the sea, the enormous undulations of momentum so natural to this physical plane, neither can you control the massive push and pull of these natural emotions... you cannot control them by brute force, a thought paralyzing to many, imaging a task so hefty and incredible that they give up... but you are not helpless. you have been given the power of choice over your thoughts.
when you become "conscious" in society (that is to say you have reached the socially acceptable level of brainwashing by age 6-9) then you are alone in the sea, treading water, helplessly tossed around like driftwood... but as you begin to choose more and more better feeling thoughts, it is like you are intentionally gathering more and more substance around you that allows you to build a makeshift raft.
weather some storms and you'll find yourself with enough flotsam and jetsam to fashion a large more stable boat, one that is not thrown around as much by the "emotional waves" crashing about you. keep choosing, keep choosing. find that thought that feels better. get good at it and you'll have a cruise liner that almost doesn't even feel the smash and crash, no matter what is thrown at it.
but just know that if you have chosen not to find that better thought, you're just alone in the sea. nothing to hold on to, nothing to stabilize. at the mercy of the furious energy of nature. no one to blame or curse at or throw things at... because the sea doesn't care :)
