firecat: damiel from wings of desire tasting blood on his fingers. text "i has a flavor!" (angel flavor)firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote,
@ 2008-03-20 03:25 pm UTC
Entry tags:day to day, feelings
I rarely mention in public how I'm feeling emotionally. (I'll talk about it with a few close friends, if they ask.) This goes not only for negative feelings but also positive ones.

I have a lot of reasons for not talking about negative feelings in public.

But here's what just percolated into my consciousness: I really only have one reason for not talking about positive ones. I believe that if I say "I'm feeling X" and then at some later point I'm not feeling X any more, people will judgementally think I'm foolish for having talked about feeling X in the first place, or possibly for having felt X at all.

I know where that belief came from. But you know, I think I don't really believe it any more.

Yay.

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