scottish fold babies :’)
the world is beautiful. it's up to you to capture it, louis.
- the electrical life of louis wain, dir. by will sharpe.
the ability air moons have to intellectualize their emotions is a double-edged sword. it can be great. oftentimes, we can detach ourselves from emotional situations and problems in order to find clear, logical solutions. we’re able to give advice with a healthy balance of emotional & rational perspectives. we can see many sides to situations others wouldn’t consider, and sometimes can talk ourselves out of being upset/angry/etc.
but the issue with intellectualizing emotions is it’s not always that easy. oftentimes, we’re aware that we’re reacting over-emotionally to something, or that we aren’t being logical in the way we’re thinking or feeling. but that doesn’t mean we can stop thinking or feeling that way. we’re just left painfully aware that our emotions aren’t matching up with our logic. it creates this internal cycle of shaming ourselves for feeling things, thinking things; that we essentially have no control over. there’s also the constant self-shaming air moons do for feeling things in the first place. beating ourselves up for having the emotional reactions that we should be having, and refusing to just feel these things and deal with them.
also, on a further note of rationalizing feelings; sometimes air moons intellectualize the good emotions too. a fear of feeling genuine happiness or enjoyment in positive situations because we overthink so much and already imagine the feeling, person or moment being ripped away from us. so we get sad in advance, or we detach from people/places/good feelings/etc because we’ve already thought ahead so hard that we’re certain it will end badly. an inability to fully experience the good emotions and feelings as well as the bad.
—When you love a person, there’s always a tiny part of you that’s terrified that one day you’re gonna lose them. And I think that your father’s so scared of that emotion that… he stops himself feeling anything at all. But you have to let the people you love know that you love them, even if it causes you a great deal of pain.
—Why? It sounds awful.
—Because you’re alive.
