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[_transient]

Maybe this is a declaration of self, or perhaps just a confession, but you should know by now that I'm a sucker for concepts. I will eat avocados just because they sound nice, even though I don't like them in the slightest. I will insist on falling asleep while watching the history channel even though I'm too tired to even see the television

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[sad_decline]

You know I understand this entry all too well.

[_transient]

Yes, I know.

I love you.<3

[koudanshi]

i know how you feel. i'm just tired of being caught in a trap of trying to explain vague and undescribable emotions.

i'm working on a thesis, for no particular reason other than to help describe things like this. i'm going to try to mathematically, or at least graphically (like graphs? just clarifying) describe emotions that lack words to describe them based on several key emotional factors, such as intensity, positive/negative, time span, and texture/color. the only objective of this project would simply be to help people describe their emotions and encourage communication.

do you think this would help you ever?

[_transient]

The idea is very interesting, and I'd like to know more, but somehow I feel like explaining emotions with mathematics and graphs would dehumanize them. Although I suppose it wouldnt dehumanize them any more than explaining them with words would. Maybe there really is no way to win.

But like I said, I am interested in knowing more. Perhaps when you are finished with your thesis (or even at any point along the way), you could explain it more to me and show me some of the graphs.

We havent talked in forever, but we should.

[koudanshi]

perhaps to gain a more realistic and objective understanding of ourselves a dynamic entities in a chaotic universe, we need to remove some of that humanity, thus making things more clear to analyze. it wouldn't be really graphing rather than it would be plotting them on a visible, tangible spectrum. rather than merely guessing at words and phrases and experiences, a more precise, yet perhaps less dynamic, method could be crafted. yet, as humans, our most powerful basic instinct is logic itself. so in a way, to think logically is human.

[_transient]

I tend to find comfort in guessing at words and phrases and experiences simply because I am drawn to the abstract. However, I do see how this gets me twisted into knots of confusion and leaves me feeling lost among the enormity of human emotion. Your logical, more precise, method of recording emotions also seems like it would be extremely comforting, in a different, but perhaps equal, sense. I am still very interested in seeing the results of this project when you are finished.