On emotion

[vdatewaterloo]

First, it seems awfully strange that the convention of indicating the content of a written work by entitling it, 'On X' seems to have fallen from favour recently. Most books on X are simply entitled 'X', or some variant therof. This, however, is tangential to my main point

Comments

[kagiri9]

That does seem to be a tad extreme.

My understanding of 'Emo' (which we all know is short for Emotional) is supposed to be a critique of excess. When you're being 'emo', you're being emotional, as oppossed to rational, in excess. You know, like getting all broken up over something trivial. I can't say I've heard it applied to anything but people (or music, particularly) that are being over emotion, particularly when it's not warented. I'd offer some examples, but I don't really listen to that branch of music, and overly emotional people bug me to begin with.

I don't see displays of emotion in anyway profane -- if you're distraught because everything has been going wrong and you break down, that's fine. Stress gets to everyone. If you're thinking about killing yourself because you just asked out your crush and they turned you down nicely, you've got issues.

I dunno, just how I saw it.

Yeah...

[vdatewaterloo]

That's how I saw it too. Some people seem to think different. Odd that.

[anonymous]

It is wrong, but I don't think that phenomenon is quite so widespread as you describe

[anonymous]

that was grace, by the way

[chemical_lover]

I saw you yesterday but I think you were on your way to an exam and I was on my way to a tutorial so I didn't stop you to say hi.

It is only now that I realize yesterday was Sunday and there is no way you were writing an exam. Chemistry blows, we have tutorials on Sundays.

You should stop by Chem Club to say hi.

I know this has nothing to do with anything... but seeing as I am depressed and emo I feel unable to comment