Hmmm kinda skeptical about dimorphous expression, like 'cute agression' 'so happy I could cry' etc. Why doesn't it happen in both directions? Why does it seem only to happen with certain emotions?
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i think when you’re so happy you could cry there’s a grief there. it’s like the grief of waiting and staying strong for a long time and then things get better and you don’t have to anymore
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about to head to bed and too tired to respond individually, but to clarify, i'm playing around with the idea that tears are literally always an expression of grief, and that "tears of joy" means there's grief mixed in with the joy
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Re grief coming thru the tears it reminds me of this joke
twitter.com/hormeze/status
Like internally I think it's 'oh god I can be happy now oh God what a relief things have been so hard oh man now I'm crying that things were so hard I don't have to hold it back anymore'
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