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louderwords  ·  4075 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is/are the most complicated emotion(s) you have ever experienced?

I've had a similar experience fairly recently. I had come home after a really bizaare return to my old college to celebrate a friend's birthday. It included messing around with some substances that usually leaves one on the butt-end of a fun time and at a place where my ex lives; there was no shortage of weird and complicated emotions.

When I came home, I popped on some music and went walking in the dark. I started losing it and crying pretty heavily while still trying to hold it together. I was literally holding/hugging myself. Thoughts and the supposed feelings of death, massive loneliness, isolation, rejection, self-loathing, sadness, and darkness flooded through me.

I got to a bench and sat down and continued kinda crying. Then, "Long Nights" by Eddie Vedder came on and I started getting chills. Then he gets to the part where he says "I-I'm falling" and his voice is kind of breaking, like it can barely hold the weight of what he's saying and I COMPLETELY lost it. My entire body shook, convulsed in this wave of loneliness and sadness and "i'm meaningless, no one loves me" and regret and longing and a slight gratitude that I was feeling something so strongly and it was like a full-body heave, and I felt like the entire world was crushing me from all angles.

After that was done I kinda of laughed a bit and was just like "wow, I can't believe I could feel that" and felt an emptiness that was more relieving than anything.





exist  ·  4074 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, I'm curious: do you feel like that experience has had an impact on your life?

louderwords  ·  4072 days ago  ·  link  ·  

not sure about long term, but the next day I felt like I was walking through an entirely different world...it was strange