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Now, I don’t like to talk about my emotions, not a lot of people do. But a problem arises when I play a game that is specifically designed to make me feel emotion, such as fear, happiness, anger, and sadness. I should feel those emotions, right? But when I play a game that is emotionally provoking, I feel nothing. For example, I recently began to play “Getting Over It”, a fairly new game. It involves the player having to drag themselves up a very steep and slippery mountain with nothing but a sledgehammer. No ropes, no safety nets. If you make a mistake it is possible to fall all the way back to the very beginning of the game, with nothing to comfort you except a sad song and a quote of philosophy about how failure is only when you give up. However, when I played this game, I fell. Loads of times and I should have been angry. But I wasn’t, I wasn’t even upset. I climbed all the way back up to where I was and fell again. I fell again with no emotional response at all. This is a problem because emotion is what makes a human a human. If I feel no anger and sadness when I lose everything, then what is the point? What happened to me that caused me to become so emotionally dull? I felt something today that I hadn’t felt in a very long time, sadness, I felt this while celebrating my birthday at a fancy restaurant with my mom and aunt. I just became overwhelmingly sad for seemingly no reason. Was I sad because I was turning 17 and hadn’t gotten a job or a driver’s license? Was I sad that I had gotten this far into my life without doing anything meaningful? Was I sad that I made the wrong choices? Was I regretting all the terrible things I have done over the past 17 years? I’ll probably never know and I probably don’t care.
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i think you writing this post was very meaningful
Replyhey, I'm 17 too and I feel the same. I have a job and a license and it doesn't make me happy. I've been feeling absolutely nothing except for this never-ending sadness. I don't know, I'm just hoping I can tell you that you aren't alone and that there are so many people out here that feel like you do. The only thing you can do is just keep going, no matter how hard it is. I believe in you!
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