Different kinds of sentimentality...
An intuitive-feeler's sentimentality can be very difficult to explain to a sensate-feeler, and vice-versa. Take today, for instance, while I was discussing moving out with my ESFP mom.
Mom: So, what will you do with the piano?
Me: I'll leave it here and take the portable. (That piano won't fit in a $600-mo apartment!)
Mom: OHHH HOW SWEET ;~; MY BABY!!!!!1 YOU'RE LEAVING A PART OF YOURSELF HERE!!!!!!!11 (Talk about lack of Fe in immediately available functions; that was NOT what I was thinking AT ALL.)
And that confused the bejeezus out of me at first. I have trouble thinking of objects as extensions of myself. My art and my ideas are extensions of me, and that's what I'm sentimental about, not the vehicles used to transport or create that art. Add to this the fact that many material things don't even make that much sense to me nowadays, let alone have emotional value...
I sort of wish I were more... I suppose obviously sentimental, if only so my mom didn't treat me like a child whenever I show that very present side of myself to her (I usually don't, due to the way she tends to react to it.)
Mom: So, what will you do with the piano?
Me: I'll leave it here and take the portable. (That piano won't fit in a $600-mo apartment!)
Mom: OHHH HOW SWEET ;~; MY BABY!!!!!1 YOU'RE LEAVING A PART OF YOURSELF HERE!!!!!!!11 (Talk about lack of Fe in immediately available functions; that was NOT what I was thinking AT ALL.)
And that confused the bejeezus out of me at first. I have trouble thinking of objects as extensions of myself. My art and my ideas are extensions of me, and that's what I'm sentimental about, not the vehicles used to transport or create that art. Add to this the fact that many material things don't even make that much sense to me nowadays, let alone have emotional value...
I sort of wish I were more... I suppose obviously sentimental, if only so my mom didn't treat me like a child whenever I show that very present side of myself to her (I usually don't, due to the way she tends to react to it.)