In my training and coaching, when I talk about how feelings are a choice -- about how no one makes you feeling a certain way (only you make you feel a certain way) -- I usually get someone who bites: "I don't buy it. There are simply times when someone does something and it ends up making me feel a certain way." Yes, it's true, I concede. Someone holds a gun to you and you get scared.
But then again, we've all heard of people who don't get scared but instead remain cool. This is not a fluke. It's a choice. The only part of it that's a fluke is that only very few people are ever seen making this type of choice. Here is some proof. You go, grandma!
Amen. Everyone chooses their feelings. It is what one has been taught, or chooses to remember in which to react to a certain situation. When we are little someone may die, we choose to get sad and cry because well, everyone else does, we throw pitty parties for ourselves beacuse someone in our life has gone, rather than celebrating the life they have lived, and enjoying their last ceremony. One of a million examples but it is true. We choose how we feel. We choose to depress ourselves. We choose everything, thus free will.