to our immediate environment. 

Primary and secondary sensors

simultaneously receiving 

vast amounts of 

uncoordinated real time data 

to be speedily interpreted, 

analyzed and reacted to, 

provide us each with an

endless continuing input 

on which to base and formulate 

our emotions on. 

Since each of us is 

different from the other 

our emotions are 

hardly the same, 

for even if it appears 

outwardly so, many 

nuances and subtleties 

of our own imprint remain. 

In crisis situations 

do we loose the mask 

that hides our composure, 

are we really in charge of 

our own emotional behavior, 

most of us would say yes, 

but in truth we are only 

partially so, our own 

emotions dictate the rest. 

HERBERT HOLZBAUER 
©  February 1997