http://faerye.net/post/waterworksComments on "Waterworks" - Faerye Net2003-07-28T08:40:49+00:00http://faerye.net/post/waterworks#comment-299Re: Other Theory2003-07-28T08:40:49+00:002003-07-28T08:40:49+00:00<p>I think you’re smart. That seems very true, to the point where I’m hitting my head and saying “duh”. However, it still leaves “Why Felicity cries more than other people>” Maybe I require more emotional sustenance.</p>felicityhttp://faerye.net/post/waterworks#comment-295Other Theory2003-07-26T13:27:36+00:002003-07-26T13:27:36+00:00<p>I think people have a fundamental need to experience grief and sorrow and things like that on a regular basis. I don’t think that art necessarily provides a release valve for stuff that’s in you that you can’t let out, but rather that it provides you with a way to vicariously experience sensations that you can’t experience directly - or in this case, would rather not experience directly - but that are still valuable and necessary sensations to experience.</p>Rock Starhttp://faerye.net/post/waterworks#comment-293Crying as an emotional release valve2003-07-26T01:45:42+00:002003-07-26T01:45:42+00:00<p>I don’t know why it works, or how, but crying is probably one of the strangest things that can happen to the human body. It’s almost literally like opening the floodgates when the dam can’t hold back the emotions any longer. I’m not sure why it works that way. Are people the only animals that cry?</p>
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Being able to cry is a sign that you keep your emotions close to the surface, I think. Years ago, when I was a very different person, it wasn’t uncommon for me to tear up at a movie or something emotionally stirring. Eventually, though, as I began burying my emotions deeper and deeper under the surface, crying became a very rare thing. When it did happen, it was because I had buried things for so long and to such an extent that I couldn’t contain them anymore. It was the sort of crying that would only happen once a year, but that leaves you totally fucked up for a good three days, after which you have to slowly piece yourself back together (and install new and improved emotional shielding to ensure that it doesn’t happen again).
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It’s probably a real bad pattern to fall into. It’s been years since I’ve cried. Who knows what’ll happen next time. So yeah, it’s a good thing that you cry. Keep it up. It’s like an emotional enema. Good for what ails you.
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I bet that’s why I like movies so much. Movies fuck with your emotions, whether you want them to or not. They force you to feel. That sure is a lot easier than actually feeling on your own. By a strange coincidence, at movie night tonight, we watched <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Details?0290212">Full Frontal</a>, which is a movie about how movies provide an emotional release for fucked up people. Ha.
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