Short story: Two psychologists "argue" about emotions

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The psychologist, Raphael Zerboski, was "arguing" with his fellow psychologist, Andre Helflim, about what the most fundamental of emotions are. Raphael claimed them to be as follows: He said that love was an emotion, as well as were humility, anger, fear, happiness, sadness, disgust, jealousy, contempt, and enjoyment, or joy. Andre, claimed that neither love, nor happiness, were emotions, of our body, but that both of these were actually higher states of our soul, that we could live from. He added that peace, was another state of our soul too, as was joy. Something like humour though, existed both as a soul attribute, as well as an emotional state of our body too. Emotions are sensations, or states that our body can be in, whereas, our soul states, are states, that we can embrace and live from, and they are always more than their just being bodily sensations. Raphael agreed with most of what Andre had said, and then he asked him whether compassion was an emotion, or not. Andre, smiled, as he replied. "Compassion, usually involves love," he said, "and so, real forgiveness, and compassion are also attributes of the higher soul, that we all have as a part of our makeup." Andre then went on to explain further how emotions work for us, in our lives. "A human has base emotions to express itself through as to its feelings, and how it responds to happenings in its life, much the same as any animal does too, and yet a human can respond from higher refined emotions, that link it to its souls attributes too, in that a soul has higher levels of understanding, and so the emotions, when felt, must not be given readily into, but must be passed past the intellect, and the soul, to check if oneself is responding appropriately, and not instinctively, from an animal level of that emotion, such as anger, lust, or envy." After chewing the fat for a bit longer, the two psychologists enjoyed a cup of coffee, and a piece of fruitcake, cooked for them by Andre's wife, and then parted company until the next discussion might come up. They took turns to meet up with each other every Friday night, in each other's houses, for a healthy discussion over all things psychological. At other times, they would go out to a restaurant, instead, if one of them was having a birthday, in that week. Rather than argue, they usually helped each other to understand each other's points of discussion, and to enjoy each other's company, in such healthy discussion, too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The men would meet at a restaurant if one of them was having a birthday.