As I have understood life so far, emotions play a strong role in our day to day life and management of relationships with all living beings. Sometimes we get emotional with things too (like naming our car) but that's a another topic altogether.

As we mature with age, we become more and more patient to sudden changes in other's emotions. It impacts us less and less. Sometimes we don't want our health impacted by other's lack of control of emotions and other times we just don't have the energy to deal with it.

I have noticed the best way to calm an emotionally enraged person is to just listen. And to listen to someone in such scenario means that you neither agree or disagree with them. In order to do this I believe, you really need to be emotionally numb otherwise you become part of it.

Let's take an example of a therapist, they would never react to your emotions and stay calm in all situations.

So my question, do you agree that one needs to be emotionally dead to be emotionally strong?