Aah... Webrings, Cliques, dithered gifs...

Made me chortle!

Oh absolutely it is. And to some degree it's understandable: it's vulnerable and icky icky icky so there's an inclination to find and provide ways to mask and suppress emotions instead of expressing them. It takes a lot of strength to be vulnerable, and you can only build that strength by being vulnerable. It's far easier to suppress.

You didn't, you just learned to push them down.

I’ve learned not to cry. I don’t know if that is a good thing or not…

It's not healthy. Emotional expression is part of being a human but many cultures have normalized emotional suppression. Read what Vodian wrote, I think it might be useful.

It’s just getting your locked up nervous system to cooperate. Kinda like pushing a car to start it up.

This right here!!!! Humanity has this artificial divide between mind and body as if your brain was somehow not connected to every part of you. I've spoken with people who couldn't understand the very question "how does sadness feel in your body". They would explain they thought person x had been mean and that made think it was wrong and that made them think they should do something yap yap yap but never actually answering the question. It's especially true for men and that's incredibly sad.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62171465

thank you thank you. I'm not a fan of Christianity, mainly because of the kind of Christians most people imagine when they think about conservatives. But after I got into Zen Buddhism, I heard some of Jesus' teachings and understood them in a different light. I don't even know if Jesus was a real person or not, I know there's a lot of motivation to push that idea though. But that's all besides the point. His teachings are generally beneficial for human well-being. If people live by them, and embody them, there's good chance of a fairly healthy community. Not sure if this is actually a quote from Buddha (which is, again, besides the point) but people think so:

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"weightier expectations" "So that is the shape of things – the shape of Canadians" "gargantuan market for thinness, are already pushing the culture in that direction. They have pipelines stuffed with next-generation drugs "

Someone's having a giggle.