You Make (Made) Me Feel...

I do have to take issue with the "you make me feel" stuff floating around.

In much the same manner as "Love means never having to say you're sorry" is nothing - and I mean *NOTHING* - more than a quote from a movie ("Love Story"), "You Make Me Feel" is 'just a wonderful disco dance tune', and nothing more.  If you choose to center your life around either one of these quotes, the quality of your short time on this Earth probably won't be as good as you had hoped it would be. 

A good parallel explanation would be Marilyn Manson's quote:

"If they think that my art can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile!"

Put into our context:

"If they can get into your head and manipulate your feelings, then your guard mechanisms are rather fragile."

Nobody can crawl into your head and make you feel anything without your permission, and in fact, without you opening up that door and welcoming them in.

(Good God, I'm going to quote a vampire movie!)

It's kinda like in the movie "Fright Night", when they said, "A vampire can't enter your home without first being welcomed in."

When I hear somebody say, "You made me feel....", I think to myself:

"Damn!  You just moved your weak spot - your Achille's Heel - from your foot to your entire head, and by telling that person that they were successful in their attempts to get into your head, you essentially held a virtual bull's eye target against your skull so that person would be sure to hit that target again the next time!"

When the wheat is separated from the chaff, it quickly becomes clear that "how you feel" occurs entirely in your head, and when a conscious effort is applied, we choose whether or not to let other people in our head, or to kick them to the curb.  You have 100% control over your thoughts.  It is entirely up to you.


- Michael