sometimes we look to label our emotions and find them confusing because there are a great number of conflicting emotions mixed in together. we feel happy for someone but also sadness for ourselves. none of our emotions are pure and neat. it's okay for them to be jumbled up.
this is also why it is important to sit with our emotions. we'll observe that some emotions are dominant, others underlying. that beneath anger is fear, beneath avoidance is grief we have not processed. we'll also observe these emotions come and go, mutable and impermanent.
the more we get to know our emotions the more we see they are not to be trusted. they are not stable or the ground we build on, just indicators of our relationships with things and people, themselves capable of change. We can see that such relationships can be transformed too.
when you have given your relationship with an object or person the space and capacity for transformation, nothing is a permanent state of mind. every moment becomes fresh with the possibility of another way of relating. and that is the seed of hope
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