Everything on this blog should be helping us understand our emotions. I wrote this on a Facebook thread today and it captures much of the basics of what I think we all need to learn.
On a biological level, happiness, sadness, shame, interest (and interest is a full-fledged motion that we don’t appreciate), and a few others are all neutral because they are biological signals that process information that comes into consciousness. Nothing comes into consciousness until it goes through this emotional system. However, my anger is not your anger, and your anger is not mine. Your happiness is not mine. There are two bowls they are labeled “joy”. Yours is filled with your set of happy memories and mine is with my personal set of happy memories. The community and our relationships teach us what happiness is. One way of being happy is better than another ultimately due to what is best for the community's survival and thud the individual's survival.
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