But how much
control do we really have over our
emotion? Consider the way that
society is put together in
this day and age: we are assaulted by
psychobabble, by the
media, by our
fellow man with this concept of
emotion. We have been too
repressed for too long,
guilt is bad, and it's OK to
cry -- all the old notions of
carriage were wrong, were psychologically damaging. Kids can't be shown any
discipline at all anymore, because some parents that weren't adult enought to make their children
unhappy managed to perpetuate the image that letting a child
roam free is the only way to teach them.
A person is a product of their environment -- our actions, our reactions are a matter of our upbringing (or our genes depending)-- so you grew up in a way that allowed you to ignore the taunts of others. Most would say you're emotionally scarred by that, that you can no longer have true feelings because you've walled yourself off.
It's all a matter of one's point of view.