Would life be easier without emotions?

Many people experience too much of one emotion or another - anxiety, sadness, guilt, anger, shame, to name a few. That life would be better if humans were rational rather than emotional is a natural conclusion to make. But life without emotions would be very difficult indeed. The word 'emotion' means 'to move'. And without emotions, it would be difficult to know what direction to move in, so to speak. To start with, emotions help us very quickly determine what's worth 'moving for' and what isn't - if something isn't important, we'll have very few emotions about it. Our emotions are our guides, acting as sign posts for our lives - whether it be guilt on considering cheating on someone leading us to disengage in a developing affair, anger when someone hurts us leading us to defend ourselves, anxiety about big decisions leading us to carefully consider all options, or excitement on pursuing an important goal leading us to work hard to achieve it. And yes, sometimes emotions become problematic, but we'd be far more dysfunctional without them than with them.