Emotion

I have had a lot of thoughts lately. I scanned through them and picked this one.
Sometimes I feel like my emotions are totally irrational. I put a lot of trust in my ability to think about things pragmatically. In certain areas of my life my emotions disagree with my practical conclusions. In one recent instance of this, my emotion gave way and the strain on my heart was lifted. But interestingly, I noticed that my ideas were just as off center as my emotions were. My thought process had diverged from the center just as much as my emotions had. When I started to be at peace, it was because both my thoughts and my emotions took a turn and harmonized with each other on the issue.
So I used to think of the relationship between my mentality and my feelings was like a kite and the tail of the kite, where my ideas were the tail keeping my emotions in order. But now I see that sometimes they both get out of whack so both of them have to make adjustments in order to harmonize with each other. I can't think of an analogy for that.

Infinite Puzzle

"...it is an eternal mystery, but still you can see that the pieces fit together..."

What is art?

This is a question that I've been asking myself. I learned a possible definition for art as something that holds value, that is created. Art is something that contains a value or values of the artist. That makes perfect sense to me. Art is an expression of the artist. Someone said that once.
When I am using my crayons I often find that is something revealing about myself. It is amazing how much I can learn about myself by looking deep into my own creations. Even when I look away from solid physical creations I see an expression myself. I have been experimenting with my guitar a lot lately. I've composed several different things. Sometimes words even come to the surface. I find that the music and the lyrics are an expression of myself and things within myself.
I think the same is true for any creation. God's creation is an expression of himself as well.

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth."

It says it right there. God intentioned to model His creation after Himself. We are God's art. But does that mean that people express God's character? Yes. Even though we don't behave as God does, in the end He will be glorified through us one way or another.
When I play my guitar, the sounds bounces off the walls, and all of it together makes the art. All about humanity is like God's music, His song. It goes on forever. It is so much higher than any music any human has ever created.

I could go off on so many tangents at this point but I might as well end this before it stops making sense and increase the chance that I'll say something incorrect.

Metroid

I thought about this for a moment. You know those Metroid things from the game? It seemed to me that you could see their brains. They looked like big brains.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a Metroid. The Metroids float up and down and they sometimes grab onto your head and suck out your hearts.
I think my brain does that sometimes. Sometimes when I'm thinking, I feel like I'm above the clouds in an aircraft of high order thought processes, looking down on all the simple ideas and seeing how it all fits together. Other times it feels like I'm low to the ground looking up, and I can't see the big picture. It is hard for me to make sense of things in times like that. Like a Metriod, I float up and down sometimes my mind is clear, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes I don't like it. But this blue brain space jelly fish is my little friend, and someday he will get huge and safe my life just like in Metroid.