Emotions are human feelings. They sometime bring us down. the good part is that emotions and bad times, usually do not last. Emotions are like being on a train and going through a tunnel. you know the tunnel is dark, but short-lived and the light at the end is fast approaching. same applies with emotions. Emotions are a good thing. they keep the human body on track.

Emotions: Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties. http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Emotions 1 a strong feeling, such as joy or anger. 2 instinctive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge. http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/emotion?view=uk Emotions are evolutionary adaptations, as they enhance an organism's ability to experience and evaluate its environment and thus increase its likelihood to survive and reproduce, by providing the simplest plans for evolutionary most common actions needed, such as approaching or avoiding (in)digestible objects, fighting for it with other organisms or running away if the other organism is too powerful (anger vs. fear), and forming or loosing cooperative ties based on reciprocal altruism (gladness vs. sadness) with other organisms. In addition, emotions serve important functions in animal communication (between or within species). Despite that in many cultures emotions (passion) are contrasted with cognition (reason) as a source of motivation and decision making, modern psychological science recognizes that, in healthy animals and humans, an individual's emotion, cognition, and behavior have a certain degree of integration and also can influence reciprocally each other. Emotions as simple plans and preparations for action: Modern views propose that emotions are brain states that quickly assign value or valence to outcomes, provide a simple plan for action, and prepare the body physiologically for appropriate action. Other examples of such preparation include, for example: the increased heartbeat and perspiration as preparation for flight action (fear), the freezing response of a rat in the presence of a cat (a simple plan to act dead and avoid being eaten), or the extra muscle tension as preparation for fight action (anger). When a bear is galloping toward you, the function of the fear is to prepare the body for the appropriate action (flight) instead of all the other things it could be doing (rounding out your grocery list). When it comes to perception, you can spot an object more quickly if it is, say, a spider rather than a roll of tape. In the realm of memory, emotional events are laid down differently by a parallel memory system involving a brain area called the amygdala. Emotion as unconscious process: Emotions seem to employ largely unconscious machinery. For example, brain areas involved in emotion will respond to angry faces that are briefly presented and then rapidly masked, even when subjects are unaware of having seen the face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion "Our two minds .... One is an act of the emotional mind, the other of the rational mind. In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels" (Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996, page 8). The rational mind is also called the faculty of logic and reason. The Upanishads say that these two are opposite in nature. Emotions appear irrational. Rationality seems to lack emotions. Modern psychologist also have observed it, but they are not very sure about it: "At the same time, reason sometimes clearly seems to come into conflict with some desires (even while not being in conflict with others) giving us the impression that reason is separate from emotion". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason

I would never give up my emotions. I have chronic depression and and I can be paranoid at times, but my emotions let me know I'm alive. They make me feel human. The only pain is to feel nothing at all.