Mi'sen

Best parts of sadness: - low tolerance for my own bullshit. - seeing how quickly emotional & cognitive activity congeals into fixated attitudes - making myself laugh at the weirdness of humanity - lack of hopefulness - sweet, sticky, rice puddingy quality - enjoying it -> release

For anyone under the impression that sadness - or any state of mind - isn't ok: 1 - actually notice the emotional flavour in your body 2 - get interested in the flavours, textures, changes 3 - notice the impulse to repress or enact 4 - remember that any state of mind is workable

This is the basic advice that changed my cognitive frame around emotion in general. Being told that absolutely any state of mind is fundamentally workable, had a tremendous impact on my life at the time. I thought I'd share that, in case it helps someone, somewhere, sometime

I post this also because I had a conversation with someone about Anthony Bourdain and what I'm calling psycho-social reflexivity, yesterday. It occurred to me that part of the reason people kill themselves isn't just the pain itself, or the believing the thoughts about it....

It's also that many people think suicidal ideation shouldn't be allowed in the space of experience. They feel shame for feeling psychological pain. This is partly why calling people like Bourdain cowards, can do so much harm. It's idiotic. Stop doing that.