A Thought on Emotional Distance
Oct. 5th, 2002 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI'm listening to my New Order CDs again. (Brotherhood, Republic, and the 1987 Substance collection.) Descended from Joy Division, New Order was an interesting group--English, post-punk, electronic. "Bizarre Love Triangle" is their most famous song:
Every time I see you falling,
I get down upon my knees and pray
Ah, wonderful group. And they, too, have reunited, I understand.
Lately, I've been wondering about my emotional distance, what seems to me like my apparent lack of profoundly powerful feelings. I feel, still, oddly restrained or exhausted, despite everything that's happened in the last (God) eight months. I feel content, for instance, but I rarely feel happy. For the time being, I see two possible causes:
To be honest, right now I'm not particularly concerned by this: So long as I can count on feeling some emotions, and participating in social things, I don't think I'll be too worried. So far, at least. Has anyone else noticed a lack of emotional depth in their lives?
Every time I see you falling,
I get down upon my knees and pray
Ah, wonderful group. And they, too, have reunited, I understand.
Lately, I've been wondering about my emotional distance, what seems to me like my apparent lack of profoundly powerful feelings. I feel, still, oddly restrained or exhausted, despite everything that's happened in the last (God) eight months. I feel content, for instance, but I rarely feel happy. For the time being, I see two possible causes:
- I'm temperamentally not given to profound emotion, or at least not often.
- I've not yet experienced the event, or series of events, which will let me feel profoundly.
To be honest, right now I'm not particularly concerned by this: So long as I can count on feeling some emotions, and participating in social things, I don't think I'll be too worried. So far, at least. Has anyone else noticed a lack of emotional depth in their lives?
