Battle Between Emotion and Reason
There are times when emotion and reason are in conflict. What you feel flies against what you know.
It could be a time when you irrationally get angry about something silly that you know is ridiculous but you're still irritated and try to force yourself to not do the thing that you know is a terrible idea.
It could be when you screech and jump at the sight of a spider, cockroach, or mouse, and then feel silly for the response you learned over your life that eventually becomes something like instinct. You know with your brain that the little thing can't hurt you, but still you have a pretty automatic irrational reaction.
It could be falling in love with someone who is totally wrong for you. Togetherness is all magic and moonbeams, but is at the same time a train plowing full speed ahead on a dead end track on a collision course that will leave one or both parties a mangled wreck. There is no way to escape that train unscathed once it has its hold on you.
Anger, infatuation love, and fear, are all examples of emotions that can be supremely powerful and for better or worse, influence our behavior. If we allow them to influence our behavior in an irrational, illogical way, we can actually allow our emotions to destroy us.
If one would rather avoid self-destruction, the intellect must rule over passion. Logic must temper anger. Rationale must counter fear.
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