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Are you people meant to always be feeling something? Are we supposed to be able to tell that one moment we are happy, then we are relaxed, and on another moment we're upset? Are you supposed to always know what you're feeling? I am very often told that I look thoughtless, emotionless, that I never look stressed or anxious, very happy or very sad, or even angry. I have tried over the years to evaluate how my emotions work. I am not emotionless at all but I have to the realization that many times I do feel... nothing in particular. It's not indifference, because that implies there is a lack of concern involved. When I say I feel nothing in particular, I mean that I sit, try to decipher how I'm feeling at a moment in which I know I don't feel any specific emotion such as excitement, annoyance, etc, and notice that I can't really put a name to what I'm feeling because it feels like nothing. Just that I'm simply existing and that I am comfortable, despite not feeling anything. I don't know how to properly explain this. I guess, sometimes people feel an overwhelming and depressing kind of emptiness that they feel is eating them inside. But what I feel is just a kind of emptiness that simply leaves my mood linear, and it doesn't feel bad or saddening at all. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
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I think it is okay to not feel anything or everything. I sometimes feel empty....or nothing. Sometimes I feel full and mood changing. I believe many emotions go unlabeled because they are very complex but that doesn't mean their not valuable.
ReplyA peaceful kind of emptiness, where you don't feel either side of the spectrums. There's also the kind of emptiness that would make you want to fill the void with anything, even sadness. Yesterday I felt happy, empty and then sad. I'm in a position where I feel comfortable in my zone and stagnant to change. It's like I'm holding on for something or for dear life. It'd be a shame to admit defeat now when I once felt so sure. There's nothing that resonates more with nature than emptiness. Feeling empty means you want to be at peace while not doing anything or much.
ReplyMY thoughts are that you should help at a charity so that you are helping others. This should get your mind off yourself.
ReplyWell said. I often feel the same way. Sometimes I can just sit for several minutes without entertaining a thought. We are not weird; we are just unusual in this way
ReplyIt's me again. I wrote the following post last week. It captures how I am.
Being Here, Now
Here is not a location in three-dimensional space. Space is just a useful concept that describes my perceptions. Perceiving only happens right here, within me, never from some other location. Now is not a moment in time that separates the past from the future. The flow of time is just a useful concept that supports my thinking. Thoughts only occur right now, never tomorrow or last week. I go on mental excursions sometimes to think about the past or a possible future, but these trips are limited. All of life is happening where Iām at, in this moment. The priority is to notice and respond to surprises, opportunities and warnings.
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