- Taken: after you feel like you want to go on a personal vendetta against all injustice and corruption
- August Rush: after you feel like making music hardcore
- Any good horror movie: after you have an increased fear of someone breaking into your house or harming you in some way
What I don't understand is that regardless of day you see Taken, the same amount of corruption exists and the same desire to right it dwells within you- it just took watching the movie to draw the emotion out. You might love music, but it takes a movie like August Rush to rekindle the desire to increase your skill or write a symphony. Criminals might want to break into your house any day of the week, but after watching a scary flick, you have almost an irrational antenna to strange sounds and out-of-the-ordinary occurrences.
My grander point is this: I wonder if God has hardwired us in a way that we can only experience so many emotions at a time because we can only handle so many emotions at a time. If we experienced the whole range of emotions, full force, at all times, I think we would go insane. The capacity for all kinds of feelings exists within us, but we only have tastings of them at different times so, I suppose, we can appreciate each feeling in a unique way.
Am I way off?
