Yeah, surprising to me how useful it's been learning to let myself be as fully sad as the experience requires
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Took me years to drop bullshit notions of it being bad mental hygiene or a sign of weakness to be sad. In fact it’s a sign of weakness to knee-jerk resist sadness.
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Interesting. I feel oppositely - that's it's ok to feel like the world is rough, but if you are too bold in exclaiming how wonderful life is, you are perceived as insensitive, privileged, and 'what about X'.
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The complaint is usually about tone deafness to others’ misery, not happiness per se.
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A coworker goes recently, how's it going, I respond, "Just normal." She responds non-jokingly something like, "Just normal? Why not good?" As if that was saying something was wrong. Is it wrong to feel normal, on average?
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Holy shit. Mind you, where I live currently people get upset if you're too *happy*, which carries its own set of problems.
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nah it’s because we don’t like people who are different from us and we want a lot of shit we probably shouldn’t have
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You’ve never been to Vienna I take it
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“... the multitudes we may contain.” Nicely put. Can we acknowledge the existentially complete version AND recognize the bigger picture simultaneously? Not knee-jerk try to escape?
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