RE: Thoughts about the stereotype of rational people being incompatible with feelings
I loved this. I'm extremely emotional most of the times, and I'm a rational person too. The biggest problem I find most of the time is that because I want to understand my very intense emotions, I get frustrated. There is not much to understand in emotion and they aren't always rational, and that is a very hard concept to grasp sometimes, when you are also extremely emotional and you just DON'T KNOW why you are feeling the way you are feeling, and with that kind of intensity. In the end, I think that, as a human being, it is great to be rational, and it is great to be able to feel with intensity. But if you try to understand emotions, or you get emotional about being rational (it happens) you are just missing the point. Being human is tough some times.
I think you sum it up perfectly with your last phrase:
There can be occasions in which the intensity of what we feel and the complexity of our thoughts might be too much, which can cause us frustration, but either way, in the end, its up to us how we read into things and how we react based on that