Dealing with emotions, no matter what they are

Editor’s note: This is a reprinted column from Jack Purcell’s “On the Journey” archives. It originally appeared in The Star in 2013.

A common perception is that women have more than their share and men were absent when emotions were being handed out. The truth may be somewhere in between.

All of humankind has emotions. They come with the package. Some folks seem to keep them front and center as though they run their lives with them. Others don’t seem to recognize that they have such a thing as feelings.