People have this expectation of me to always take the "higher road"; to always be the one that, no matter what people do to me, or say to me, or do to people I care about etc, that I will never be angry about it and I will always be understanding and forgiving. I think this comes from people not understanding what #stoicism is, but also because people - especially white ones - often call Black women dangerous or unhinged when expressing normal and justified emotions.
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The #stoics referred to uncontrolled emotions as "passions".
Basically passions were things that caused debilitating emotional suffering or wounds on the soul.
Emotions exist in #stoicism, just not the "dangerous and unhinged" ones that cause people to basically behave like you see everyone behave in the world today.
Logic and reason should come before emotions. Logic and reason help you to determine the most appropriate emotion for a given circumstance. They don't replace emotions.
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Think first. Feel second.
It's not ... don't feel at all.
That's not how human beings work and it's not how they should work to be well balanced and healthy people.
Logic and reason are important for critical thinking and various kinds of emotional and psychological literacy ...
Giving in to "passions" is the most destructive force to all of humanity, which should be very clear and obvious to anyone who pays attention to the state of the world at any given point in time.
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@thewebrecluse emotions are a guide but not always an accurate one...if something feels creepy it usually is, and thats when emotions come in handy. However being directed by emotions as if they're facts instead of thinking about them as reactions that may or may not have any basis, and responding to them as such, is where people get themselves in trouble.