Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence is a person's ability to understand their own emotions and those of others, and to act appropriately using these emotions.


Nowadays, I find that teenagers lack emotional intelligence. When problems like relationship, money issue or family problem occurs, they will tend to lose the ability to think and react correctly.

For example in recent years, many teenagers self harm when they met problems. One example of self harm is by cutting their wrist. They felt that by cutting their own wrist, they could replace the pain in their heart.

Emotional intelligence is something that cannot be taught. The only way to have emotional intelligence is to learn from past experience or own mistake. Besides that, family support is also very important. If a teenager does not have a complete family, they will lose the ability to think correctly and come to the worst, they will seek suicide when they face problems which they think that can’t be solved. By doing these foolish actions, they are actually not easing their pain. Furthermore, they will add pain to people around them, people who care about them.

In conclusion, having good emotional intelligence is very important.