do you ever just get overwhelmed with bittersweet beauty and you don't know what to do about it so you just sit there a little uncomfortably and compulsively drink tea
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world... but honestly yes sometimes the beauty of the world can be overwhelming, and it can be equally sad and tragic. youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnj
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I've thought about this experience before and see it as sort of an example of Jeffrey Gray's "behavioral activation theory", where there's heightenened sensitivity to non-reward stimuli ("bittersweet") and novelty but not enough to evoke high energy responding.
A middle ground.
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There's a beautiful, complex, and violent waterfall in Vermont that would be almost certainly be a fatal kayak run at Spring Flood. It shakes the Earth. I've sat & watched it, postulating pathways, for hours. Tea optional.
