It’s been said that I’m too emotional and the more I get to know myself, the more I’m glad God made me just the way I am.   Angie Stone, in her song, “Happy Being Me” says it this way:

Looking back on when I started
Had a lot of sun and a lot of rain
I’ve had some joy and broken heartache
But now that doesn’t mean a thing

I’m living for the joy and laughter
Longing for my befores and afters
All in all, it’s been cool
And there’s nothing I wouldn’t do

Stop reaching back for your beginnings
All those broken dreams that went down stream
As we grow, live and know
Somethings were never meant to be

Just like people, they come and go
Some will live forever and some will never know
That’s why God gives us memories
To lead us to our victories, I’m so happy loving me

So happy being me
I’m regretting nothing ’bout me
Too busy living life, living love freely
So happy being me

When I think further on the issue, I’d rather be known as one with lots of “e”motion than one who simply goes through “the” motion. Lack of commitment and lack of enthusiasm feels lifeless and having been faced with a disease that has rendered many “lifeless” I’m fully committed to living my best life now-full of emotion, love, compassion-totally emptying myself-purposefully determined to take nothing to the grave that was meant to be released in one way or another into the atmosphere. I pity the one that’s so calculated and so robotic always moving to the accepted beat of others yet dying on the inside from so much unleashed passion and unexplored personal interests.

That will never be me.  I’m passionate, loving, empathetic and I have been equipped with many tears to shed, I’m ME and happy being ME!  I pray the same for you-that you will be free in your emotions rather than be bound as you go through “the” motions.