Just fyi, I TOTALLY feel like this sometimes...a lot actually, especially about ice cream haha (or going to a Jazz game!)! So this hilariously awesome video from Saturday Night Live I think applies to some things we've been talking about in class. I have a friend who is just like Sue in this video, who is VERY expressive and totally shows all her emotions and what she's thinking/feeling, and you always know exactly what she's thinking/feeling. I, on the other hand, exercise a little more restraint when it comes to emotion and showing how I feel when I'm in public (depends on the situation, where I'm at and who I'm with for sure!). I just get a little shy with publicly displaying my emotions in a big way, & I get embarrassed kind of easily (which I hate). So does that mean we all feel emotions differently to a lesser or greater extent, or do we just express them differently and uniquely as indivduals? And to put sort of a spiritual twist on this, what kind of emotions did we feel in the pre-mortal life, since we didn't have bodies or physiological responses to them? I'm sure we had them, but I think we maybe feel them on a much bigger level here with our bodies than we ever did as spirits?? Sorry, tangent.
So in this video, a monotone/stone-faced Christopher Walken says, "I'm excited too, I just show it differently", while Sue can hardly contain herself. Everyone around her is appalled at her behavior and I'm guessing from their NVC, probably a little annoyed. I think when people are unable to control their behavior in a socially acceptable way in response to the stimulus and physiological response of an emotion, the people around them either think it's hilarious, or annoying (personally, I find people like Sue hilarious, they just make me laugh, which I love to do). Kay, so here's a different example: crying is a perfectly acceptable behavioral response to many emotions such as sadness, joy, spiritual whatevers...but when someone can't control their tear ducts I admit my 'emotional intelligence' drops and I get a little annoyed. For me, I hate it when I cry in public. To my great dismay, I do cry in public (like most girls) and way more than I'd like, and often it's for stupid reasons. Sad movies, I have to watch alone so I can bawl by myself...cuz somehow crying my eyes out when I'm alone is perfectly fine in my book... If I watch sad movies with other people I can usually control myself to the point of shedding like one glistening tear and I'm done, lots of blinking involved...k-actually no, not really. Sometimes I really cry more than that in sad movies and I can't control it! Bleh. I'm trying to convince myself otherwise as I'm writing this. Why is something like tears so stinkin' hard to control sometimes??? Especially for girls it seems! Lame. Anyway, I just think emotion is interesting...how sometimes seeing someone cry makes me want to cry (tho I try hard not to)...emotional contagion I guess that would be called. It's the same when someone's laughing, it makes me laugh even if I have no idea what they're laughing about (which, uncontrollable laughter I'm very much okay with because I do it a lot!). We all sort of feed off of each other's emotions and reactions to our emotions...it's kind of a circle of life type deal I guess, kind of weird. Hopefully this made sense...late night ramblings.
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