Musings on emotional longevity.

When you get right down to it,

what's the difference between controlling your emotions and repressing them?

If you keep your emotions under control and then let them out later, you don't really have them completely under control. It's just a temporary setting. But if you keep them controlled all the time, then you're repressing them.

Yet one is a necessary virtue of modern society and the other is the primary vice of psychological analysis.

But should we let ourselves be controlled by instantaneous desires or should we focus on what we think we'll need later on and dictate our present actions accordingly? I tend to opt for the latter, though I'm generally a fan of the long-term.