brute-forcing a good mood ☀️ - introspection ft. harsehaj
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i don’t feel sad very often. i’m very privileged to say that. i hope it stays that way forever. when i do feel sad, however, i refuse to wallow in it. wallowing in it changes “i’m feeling sad” to “i am sad,” which is a full acceptance of that emotion as an identity. i am not sad. i have sad moments, mad moments, frustrated moments, of course, but, those moments don’t identify my whole being, not even within that moment itself. there’s a slight linguistic nuance to this, and i take it seriously. my solution is to always brute-force myself back into a good mood: absolutely no depressing…
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