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I don’t believe anything can be 100% precise and yet the text offers as a guideline for expressing emotions. I have found it helpful to remember that emotions are subjective, and that even if we’re right, we’re still wrong.
The text does claim that emotions are subjective and thus inherently subjective. But I don’t believe that. Emotions are a subjective thing, but we can still experience them. You can’t really tell me that you are angry and I will be angry, you can’t really tell me you are sad and I will be sad. It’s all subjective.
Emotions just aren’t subjectively experienced. If you have a feeling about something (for example, you are sad) but your eyes don’t show it, then you are still sad.
So your example seems to be that you might be sad but you dont show it. But maybe you could show it. You could say, for example, “you know, my eyes are sad but I cant show it. You can see my sad eyes.” Your eyes might look sad, but you could still feel sad. This is the same as you being sad but you also feel happy. And we could say that you are sad, but you are also happy.
“You see a red car, you see a green car, etc.” is a guideline for expressing emotions. This is a guideline for expressing feelings, not the feeling itself. So if you say, “I see a red car”, you are not saying “I see red cars”.
Some people have a tendency to be afraid or have very strong feelings, but for most of us we do not feel fearful. We don’t feel afraid. And we can’t hide that feeling from ourselves either.
A lot of us have a tendency to be afraid. We can say that we are scared, when we are scared, we are afraid. But most people in our town have a tendency to be afraid. And we do not feel afraid, if we have a tendency to be afraid.
I think the best answer is: You can keep your emotions private. But if you want to express them, you can use the techniques described below.
Feelings are not feelings. Feelings are just like opinions, they cannot be shared. Feelings are a feeling that you have about something, and that is what you feel when you think about it. It’s a feeling. You can keep your feelings private, but there is a better way to express them.
Feelings are a feeling that you have about something, and that is what you feel when you think about it.
