Emotions are uncomfortable.
And there seems to exist this habit online that when people experience or display an emotion that makes us uncomfortable we feel the need to either, minimise it, challenge it or even correct it.
No platform is removed from this. Not Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or even in Email.
So when you express something, let’s say a doomy feeling.
…someone might show up to chastise you for that attitude.
No sir, You can’t be doomy. Doom is bad. Doom is how they win, they’ll tell you. Doom is what they want so you mustn’t feel doom!
Doom gets us nothing, you fool!
Don’t you see what you’ve done?
YOUR DOOM IS CONTAGIOUS!
But there’s always a ying to the yang.
Opposite scenario…
If you express anything that makes you happy or gives you a little glimmer of joy. You know? That thing you love that helps keep the blackness out of your stare so you don’t lose yourself? That type of joy…
It’s like if you said “I love pancakes” then some clown will reply: “so what you’re saying is you hate donuts?”
Like that shit doesn’t even make sense.
But we need to remember that we live in a world where our emotions have no utility to the world. They’re just emotions.
Yeah we display them, often and people will challenge it or even worse try and make it so that when you do show it. That it’s going against and minimising things like democracy, climate change, economy, future existence.
I mean I don’t know how me sharing my emotions will fix those problems but expressing them will help me balanced and explore me as a person.
We’re messy as humans. And the world has gone to shit in many respects, so what’s wrong with sharing our emotions and feelings?
It’s natural.
You don’t need to correct someone’s feelings, because feelings aren’t facts. If they’re happy about something and expressing joy, you also don’t need to correct that joy. I mean, how messed up is that?
You can put your own feelings on your own timeline, that’s fine. If you feel like doom is bad, and you have something to counter it, put it out into the world. That’s you getting to feel how you feel, and that’s okay, too.
It’s hard not to feel doomy right now.
It’s also hard not to desperately seek small, significant things of joy…
I guess my point to this is on the days where you feel like there’s nothing but doom and gloom.
Express it.
If you’re feeling happy about something that might seem small to someone else.
Express it.
Just don’t chop someone down if they’re doing the same thing.
If we don’t express it. It’ll consume us and we don’t want to become an empty husk of a person devoid of emotion.
Cause if we do, then how are we gonna create our art?
Stephen Walker
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