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The Worrying Mind is always trying to hold the entire timeline in mind. Making sure the actions will fit. https://t.co/9qVhSqd3SX

The Unworrying Mind is just here. In the only place where things happen. https://t.co/8wbWigua8A

It’s because of this that the Worrying Mind never actually is able to *experience* anything. A wonderful party, a wonderful summer, they’re both filtered, through many layers of symbols, and it’s kinda nice—“ayy, we had a party!”—but there’s never the sense of real delight. https://t.co/omCXAaBti1

I lived in an Optimising Mind so long I didn’t even remember/totally believe what truly just experiencing an emotion would mean. https://t.co/m6tNs91xE0

It actually was so different to delight me, I wouldn’t really feel delight by the usual things people did. I thought that was it—someone doing this legibly nice thing that seems to make most people delighted—was also supposed to make me feel delighted, but it didn’t.

There really were other things that did make me feel actually delighted, though; I’ve been discovering what those are. https://t.co/NMplun3rqv

So strange. To feel an emotion that feels embodied and True, instead of just optimal. https://t.co/bBx3uAKVTM