Our emotional quota can sap by over-working and being workaholics.
I thought of the concept of emotional quota as I observed that
as we grow older, we tend to :
1) Make lesser new friends.
2) Lose touch with old friends with whom you had closer contact.
3) Less likely to fall passionately in love maybe.
This probably happens as we tend to re-invest and prioritize our exhaustible quota of emotions towards our close family, new relations and friends.
The earlier generations who had more time and not as over-worked as the current generation had a higher degree of socializing through family and community gatherings, offering food to the poor etc, than our current FB generation which would rather harvest cherry blooms on a virtual farm.
The finiteness of one's emotional quota is no free pass to absolve oneself from the guilt of lack of empathy for a co-worker, country men, fellow human beings, animals, environment. It shouldn't be an excuse to miss old reunions, marriages, family get-togethers.
Rather the awareness of something called emotional quota and the consciousness of a dipping emotional quota should point to a certain unaddressed imbalance in your life and activities.
