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Jan. 4th, 2006 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saffronhareI'm noticing a connection between the amount of [Emotion X] I anticipate or brace for in a situation and the amount of [Emotion X] I perceive myself to have experienced (and/or observed in others) on the other side of the situation.
The apparent cause and effect is predictable, regardless of whether the emotion is negative or positive...and whether I'm considering my own behavior or that of others.
To expect anything other than Good Things is, in my mind, too limiting to be tolerated. This is not to be confused with not knowing how to respond to Bad Things, or Other Things along the spectrum. I'm simply talking about setting up expectations.
Filing this under Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Emotional Reality.
The apparent cause and effect is predictable, regardless of whether the emotion is negative or positive...and whether I'm considering my own behavior or that of others.
To expect anything other than Good Things is, in my mind, too limiting to be tolerated. This is not to be confused with not knowing how to respond to Bad Things, or Other Things along the spectrum. I'm simply talking about setting up expectations.
Filing this under Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Emotional Reality.
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Date: 2006-01-04 10:41 pm (UTC)