Shocked at this video of Chris Barber with his kid because the kid goes through the emotion SO FAST. About as fast as I do since I started feeling lol. And it sparked this hypothesis: perhaps people are terrified of emotions because, somewhere in the dynasty, for some reason, someone didn't have the skills/context/privilege necessary to process something *fast*. So the idea was ingrained that when emotions come they stay a looooooooooong time. And if that is the case then any negative emotion is EXTREMELY BAD because it stays for soooooooo long. This would lead not just to you being avoidant of your own emotions but being avoidant of others' including your kids', hence replicating the pattern in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way! They don't get the necessary support to go through them quickly so they DO indeed take a long time to get over and thus having negative emotions IS indeed extremely bad!

I wish people understood how influential X is. L: Prime-time TV show w/ a "Climate Change Expert": "we increasingly need A/C" R: 2nd in command in Portugal's 4th biggest party says "more people die in the EU bc of heat than bc of guns in the US". "AC is public health"