Choosing feelings

A wise friend remarked, “I’ll have to decide how I feel about that.”

Feelings happen. Sometimes they are welcome. Sometimes they catch us off guard.

But they always happen within the context of us. And that means we can make choices.

There’s a lot we can’t control, but we can control ourselves. We can decide how we feel about things.

We can let our feelings emerge as they will — but we can also consciously choose.