Emotional Granularity

The difference with an emotionally calculating person is the lack of any interest in reciprocation. When we are calculating, we only care about what others can do for us.

While the suspicious worry about being deceived, people who feel circumspect worry about caught in the open.

Those who have been caught in a morbid mood break the social taboo against openly considering the inevitable progress of vitality into decay and death. Being morbid doesn’t necessarily include feelings of sadness… more emotion Morose

There are few survivors who can tell us what it feels like to actually drown. The feeling of drowning, however, is familiar to many. A drowning person is still conscious, still has some… more emotion Drowning

There are times when we feel especially awake and enthusiastic, times when we’re not only capable of doing more than what’s merely necessary, but feel outright eager to go beyond the minimum requirements,… more emotion Perky

It’s the opposite of confidence. It’s suspense robbed of its uncertainty. It’s just a hint of foreboding, the shadow of fear to come.

Tarab is a purposeful movement, telling the story of how a person can shift from one emotional truth into another.

Sometimes, the accusation that a person is uptight is itself used as a tool of social control, to try to force individuals to engage in activities that they don’t feel comfortable with.

Emotionally, we contain many different kinds of lifesaving devices, the psychological equivalents of inflatable vests or floating inner tubes.

It’s enough to say that things are looking up, even if we do not rise ourselves.