Gem

While doing research for quotes on reason, I stumbled upon a beautiful gem by Charlotte Brontë, "Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision."

To some, it might read as through she is writing about love and matters of the heart, however, I beg to differ. Brontë wasn't writing about romance. She was writing about reason in the context of thought, choice, control, rational decision making, thinking v. feeling, heart v. brain.

A practical example of this that occurred this week: (Insert extremely frustrating situation) occurred and I wanted to yell, hop in my truck and fly like a bat out of hell. I didn't. In the words of Brontë...reason sat pretty and held onto the reins. I smiled and remained cool, calm, and collected.

Oh, how I strive to write like her...