What is a Soul (In a Nutshell)? In My Opinion

I often hear the word "soul".
Mostly in the religious sense, but also in subjects of music and other such things.
I've wondered;
What exactly is a soul?
What is it composed of?
How do we obtain it?
In western religion, you would say that, the soul is the only immortal part of the human and it is also the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life.
The term: Soul, isn't very popular in eastern religions though. Most don't come very close to explaining or even talking about a soul, but in eastern religious view, it would be a state of self-awareness.
Of coarse there is many other views of the soul, but those are two that we most frequently come upon.
Most religions say that its either immaterial (western), or its an idea(eastern) and we obtain when we are born (western) or when we come to a point of enlightenment (eastern).

So...
What is a soul?
What is it composed of?
How do we obtain it?

In my opinion:
A soul is simply a collection of emotions.
This definition applies to everything.
In entertainment, when some one has soul they express an emotion, or collection of emotions, through their art. Weather it be dance, an instrument, a picture, a painting, or anything really.
The artist has either successfully found a way to express emotions through their art consciously, or has a moment where every emotion possible has built in inside them in that one moment and they successfully push it all out at once in a creative way (i.e. "art").
In Religion we have two general views.
In western religion, they say that it is an immaterial thing that is immortal and is inside of us. When asked, "how do we know our soul is with us, or in us" the person might reply: "Because god has given it to us."There is no technical way to prove that this immaterial, immortal thing exist. Furthermore, there is no way that we can prove that god exist. "he is simply there" or "he simply is" is not a proven explanation that "he" exist.
In eastern religion, the soul is more of an idea than anything. Because i Have not learned enough about eastern religion to form an opinion of it, i will return to this subject when i do. I beleive, though, that my statement will hold true.
because in my opinion, the soul is a collection of emotions, it is"obtained" when we experience our first emotion, whenever that may be. It cannot be proven when we experience our first emotion, truly, we cannot truly know what our first experience of today was. Many questions arise when we ask that question.
When did the day start?
Did you feel any emotion in your dream?
How you know that was the first, and not the first that you remeber?
What if you are dreaming right now?
As you can see, it is impossible to truly know this, so i can only infer that we "obtain" a soul when we experience our first emotion. I've inferred this because i have rationalized that when we experience our first emotion, we can never truly experience that same emotion again. Therefore, since it is already experienced it is collected in our mind.

This is a very brief theory, as i experience more, i will add, take away, and re-write what i have to to make this theory as well thought out, and well proven as i possibly can.
I hope you have enjoyed this, please post comments of what you think so i can learn more.
Thank you,

Quicky1508