The far-reaching extent of this is often under-appreciated, indeed: “adults are just children that have aged. We don’t become immune to the emotions we felt as children once we reach adulthood, we just become more competent at dealing with them—which is great! Labelling and understanding our emotions is important, but pretending that we can get so good at dealing with them as to not feel them at all is foolish.”
This reminds me of a thought I often have - labels both define and constrain us.
Using TinEye, I found this for the image source https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/gv5dim/no_name_sakoasko_digital_2020/
Great piece Isabel. So much mental suffering is just unfelt feelings
Mmmmm, this and the funk post both are helping me a lot rn. Thanks again for great ideas!
The far-reaching extent of this is often under-appreciated, indeed: “adults are just children that have aged. We don’t become immune to the emotions we felt as children once we reach adulthood, we just become more competent at dealing with them—which is great! Labelling and understanding our emotions is important, but pretending that we can get so good at dealing with them as to not feel them at all is foolish.”