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2. i complicate things construe ego-narratives about shadows and public faces and that when really man, maybe im just feeling a bit humiliated, or a bit upset https://t.co/u2cOvIBEj7
it’s one of those underthinker/overthinker things i genuinely think those ideas about public face and animas are onto something (and there is such a thing as overdoing it) https://t.co/xqDLl35CxS
for some underthinkers, some of the time, those ideas will feel profound, and useful. they will be helpful levers against reality for some overthinkers, some of the time, they will be needlessly complicating, and lead to a continued disconnect with the feeling space that is
the ideas may be great, but if the feelings aren’t touched, what point? the glorious theoretical map to an expedition it seems from the way you are sitting you’re not planning on going https://t.co/eLfs6ueR4u
the higher cognitive space can schematise all it wants, and it’ll may only ever change thoughts to help feelings shift, one tunes into what one is actually feeling. by taking the mental move of “feel the feeling,” something non-trivial happens: https://t.co/2t4CkoghfH
it reminds me a little of this “ploughing ahead” can be useful to turn up more mud. yet it is only ever stillness that integrates maps of theory and the mind can help uncover more hypotheses. yet it is only ever feeling into feels that rubs against them https://t.co/Yiuh5cJHbE https://t.co/DpeDsgPQFQ
for me, it’s not that my hypotheses are wrong, it’s that there’s something powerful for me to feel the humility of feeling simple feelings not “my needs are blah, so my shadow is doing blah, so blah” but “im feeling lonely and sucky”
the “simplicity” of this feeling is misleading. the labels we use for them: sad, helpless, upset, those appear simple. the sanitised emojis we might use to represent them in popular culture, those might be simple https://t.co/wz0pStsGSq
they’re not even trying to be embarrassed. this isn’t what embarrassment looks like they’re trying to give back like this . . logo of embarrassment. a advertising-ready fetished emotionally-sanitised version, that is a simulcra of the original but the original has been forgotten
but underneath the seeming simplicity of the labels are some incredibly complex, and nuanced, and ever evolving like a flowing stream of the workings of an enlightened and perceptual and emotional mind https://t.co/VWpSBIM2Cl
there’s an ability to phrase the same thing as 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺,, something wrong with this or just lonely,, want to meet people or even sociable, want to meet people like tiers of believing humans are dark & complex humans are just simple humans are good & normal https://t.co/3GQZ2moTXG
they’s all 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦,, but it’s a matter of not overfixating on any one tier enough that it becomes something you want to believe if you want to believe all your emotions are just cool & normal like a normie might, then you will be surprised by how people are monsters
if you are the kind of person who ends up growing up to be a famous psychoanalyst (introspective, thinks a lot, said controversial things) (*cough* not this account), your priors will be twisted too https://t.co/mFIHspjYPl