Feelings are not just things we experience and as soon as they're gone, they stop affecting us.
Feelings shape us, in the moment that we feel them, and keep on shaping us long after we stop experiencing them.
They're like scars. You could cut yourself, bleed a little bit, then over the next few days, the wound would seal itself and dry up, and all you're left with is a scar.
A little reminder of something that happened in the past.
The cut you began with doesn't entirely disappear. It becomes a part of you.
It becomes you. And you become it.
And this same way, feelings make us into ourselves.
Because feeling emotions is just as real as seeing or feeling a physical change.
And though we might not see the scar which was left after being affected either by a good feeling or a bad one, it all still happened.
It still made us react in a certain way.
It still made us and unmade us.
