EMOTION AND CULTURE

Everyone around us belongs and makes up a certain culture, whether a large contributor or a small one, we all make up this one culture with its own traditions. Emotion shapes society and is directly correlated, not specifically positive or negative, and not equally correlated, but to some extent all emotions have significance in shaping our culture.

The same, emotions are interpreted exactly depending on the atmosphere and context of the culture around them. Going to my friend’s houses over the years I have always, every single time, not once been denied honor and respect as a guest, not once. This is not because I have done anything to deserve this sort of treatment, but because my friends live in a culture that thrives off of the genuineness that I emit as I am so highly appreciated by them. The complexities of our emotion have all contributed to a culture, a culture that is well observed here in the UAE, in which we are so delighted to make people feel respected and welcomed.

Although this same culture does not exist in other parts of the world, it is beautiful how other cultures all hold specific emotions as a principal, and are able to form around those emotions, which most agree that they are important to the whole culture. I have experienced cultural diversities multiple times in my travels, and it amazes me how fiercely people will insist on offering you the feelings, which are associated with the emotions.  In America, I have been taken out into cities and hustled through major attractions to the point that I could hardly keep up with the pace, in some cultures this might be a sign of ignorance as there was no time to take a breath and rest. However from my point of view, I thought it was one of the most humble gestures of respect, since my friend have sacrificed his time in order to personally show me around. Similarly in other cultures, I have been stuffed with food until my stomach was filled, some might think that it is a sign of disrespect when the host ignores my decline for food, though yet again I saw this as an effort to evoke the emotion of satisfaction.

INTUITION

The essential concept about intuition is that it somehow transcends the physical realm, the measurable, and as a result is one of the most spectacular capabilities we endure.

Very few, if any, things in this would exist exclusively to us. These things are the voice that we think in, our inner soul, and the emotions of happiness; all respectively defined with complicated terminology yet all are the same, undefined. What made that man set down his coffee; did he have a “hunch” that he should go check on his stock portfolio? What about that mother who checked on her son in the “given of time”, how could she have possibly know something was going to go wrong at that exact moment, and how did I know I should have called my father when I did, when I stayed late. 

All these events are beyond the senses of touch, sight, taste, smell, and sound. Although some might argue that these events played out as such due to past experience, and I did indeed have a conscious that provoked me to call may dad. At that, some people even claim to have no intuition, they mock its nature and insist on basing every aspect of their lives on their factual knowledge or might even refer to it as being "luck". Even then, in our entire existence, people will have to yet explain how past events could play with a thought or action without any interventions from the other five senses. In fact, if we look at our knowledge limits, it is against everything we know to accept intuition as real, just as man has never been able to create life from nothing, we cannot create intuition, as there is nothing scientifically or facts influencing our various responses due to different actions taking place. 

CHILDHOOD PHOTO EXPERIMENT

Childhood can be full of memories and experiences, it may have an influence on how we act and live our life in the future. I have sat down with my dad, intending to look at old photos and compare how each of us remember the event or the experience. 

The picture I have chose was captured in 2009 in Rome, Italy. It was during a football tournament, where I was playing for the AC Milan youth academy. As we discussed the event at first, we decided to write down what we remember from the event separately. My thoughts were rapidly coming to my mind and all I did was write it all, just as how I remember it. 

My perspective: 

- I scored a goal and then we lost.

- We finished second.

- It took place in 2009.

My dad's perspective:

- I passed the ball which lead to my teammate scoring.

- We finished 4th.

- It took place in 2010.

As we both started to exchange thoughts and memories, I have noticed that they were not similar at all. The three points above, are the memories that created a kind of a conflict and made me wonder if I was living in a dream the whole time. 

Apparently, the game "I scored in" and lost was not the final, it the the game that was played between the 3rd and 4th best teams. My dad and I both agree on the fact that we lost the game, but my dad insisted that it was played to determine the 3rd best team, which means that we finished 4th. 

This shows that memory can be changed depending on how important an individual's mind thinks it is in order to preserve the memory in the long-term section. After conducting this amusing experiment with my dad, I got to a conclusion that my dad did not really pay attention, since I am positive that I am right.

KNOWLEDGE

Theory of Knowledge evolves into eight different ways of knowing, which help describe knowledge and situations around us based on everyday basis. This includes emotion, faith, imagination, intuition, language, memory, reason and sense perception. 

Each of the previous ways of knowing help discuss a certain issue or the knowledge gained behind it. Knowledge is considered to be derived from information, however it is known to be more meaningful and significant.

For example, lets say that a person hurt himself as a result of fooling around with tv cables. After a while, when that same person has something to fix with these cables, memory plays its role in knowing what might happen to him, this is due to the fact that the brain starts to familiarize the situation he is in based on previous memories stored.

All other ways of knowing play their parts just as much as memory plays its own. Emotion's role can be as simple as knowing that animal cruelty is not humane, that is because a human feels sympathy towards the animal that is getting abused. 

Faith can be related to religion, as you know things are set to be that certain way, and a person would not question them because this is what he believes in and feels is right. This can be related to intuition, which is knowing things based on feelings you get. For example, having a gut feeling that walking that narrow road at night would be a bad idea, so the next day you find out that a murder took place 10 minutes after you decided to take another way home. 

These ways of knowing are all related, intertwined and dependent on each other. They make up the building blocks of theory of knowledge as they help explain how life around us, and give chance to all possible answers and arguments.

TIME

Time can be considered to be a measure in which events can be put in the order of past, present and future. If you think about it, time can have an effect on our lives and how we live it. If an individual thinks of the past, he or she may feel that the event is taking place, however the only thing taking place at that specific time is the present. As you may have noticed now, thinking about the previous sentences would be the past, and the past is always fixed. 

On the other hand, future is wide open and may include any sorts of events that an individual plans, or actions that he decides to take. Future can be easily manipulated, and changed into the form of being a part of the present. Arguably, time can overall change upcoming events and may also play a huge part in the events taking place in the present, which will later on be remembered as the past.

For example, consider the butterfly effect and how easily events can be influenced by time or actions. Say a woman is crossing the street at 11:15am and a car hit her at that specific given time period. What if the woman accepted that cup of coffee offered by her colleague, well, possibly she would have not crossed the road at that time, and the car would have passed earlier. Also if you take in consideration the situation that the driver was in, maybe also time would have had an influence on the event. Say that the driver woke up to his alarm that he set on 11:00am sharp, then he would have taken another route, which is considered to be longer but faster in terms of traffic. So can we say that if the alarm went off on time, then the the car would have not hit her?