AlexKaiser
Don Juan
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2017
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Yeah, I'm kinda tied to my emotional side. I use it to hedge my bets about uncertain things in life.
That and if you're a creative type, channeling your emotions produces better work. The thing is, the game, the warzone, requires a whole lot of indifference and apathy.
There's passive apathy and active apathy, and its the active part i'm tripped up on.
Passive apathy is you seeing somebody drive by with a Ferrari while you're pooting along in your f-150 but not feeling jealousy, shame or apathy from seeing it, or not even being aware that an angry penis-envious neofeminist wants you to die.
Active apathy is when something is challenging you to care about something, and you can withhold any emotions from it, and prevent emotional investment. Like if a girl turns you away for being "a fuċkboy" or the wealthy alpha decides to flaunt himself in front of you to try and make you jealous.
Things i don't care about, I won't care about. Trump, Wall Street, gas prices, the war, 3rd world suffering, the sanctity of marriage, trans issues, all of that just doesn't evoke an emotion out of me.
However, things like the girl I like putting her nose in the air and turning away from me mid-sentence to greet a less attractive, less valuable man? Kinda pisses me off. I'm not sure how you feign apathy, or show true apathy, to somebody doing something like that to you.
How did you learn to hone your apathy and indifference, and use it to stop yourself from expressing jealousy, annoyance, anger or worse, thirstiness?
Also, how do you not care, without it tarnishing your ability to feel real emotion? I know a guy who can
t watch movies anymore, who can't play games and doesn't even have fun playing pool anymore because he forced himself to be apathetic way too often. Girls can never get in his head. But neither can anything else. Sounds miserable.
That and if you're a creative type, channeling your emotions produces better work. The thing is, the game, the warzone, requires a whole lot of indifference and apathy.
There's passive apathy and active apathy, and its the active part i'm tripped up on.
Passive apathy is you seeing somebody drive by with a Ferrari while you're pooting along in your f-150 but not feeling jealousy, shame or apathy from seeing it, or not even being aware that an angry penis-envious neofeminist wants you to die.
Active apathy is when something is challenging you to care about something, and you can withhold any emotions from it, and prevent emotional investment. Like if a girl turns you away for being "a fuċkboy" or the wealthy alpha decides to flaunt himself in front of you to try and make you jealous.
Things i don't care about, I won't care about. Trump, Wall Street, gas prices, the war, 3rd world suffering, the sanctity of marriage, trans issues, all of that just doesn't evoke an emotion out of me.
However, things like the girl I like putting her nose in the air and turning away from me mid-sentence to greet a less attractive, less valuable man? Kinda pisses me off. I'm not sure how you feign apathy, or show true apathy, to somebody doing something like that to you.
How did you learn to hone your apathy and indifference, and use it to stop yourself from expressing jealousy, annoyance, anger or worse, thirstiness?
Also, how do you not care, without it tarnishing your ability to feel real emotion? I know a guy who can
t watch movies anymore, who can't play games and doesn't even have fun playing pool anymore because he forced himself to be apathetic way too often. Girls can never get in his head. But neither can anything else. Sounds miserable.
