I go through periods of Philosophical mindsets, they come and go once a month sometimes less often sometimes more frequently. I have had this referred to as my "Man Period" by a former flatmate which made me smile.
I recently went through this Philosophical phase during which a friend sent an inane text, nothing out of the ordinary all it said was "How are you?" and my reply verbatim was "I don't know really, I can never really answer that question", his reply which I will share and which forms the focus of this post was thus: "Me neither. There's always something making me feel anxious, depressed, happy, sad, or hopeful. Only thing that changes is the order I'd rank them in".
That's an interesting concept and the more I think about it the more I would identify with the assessment. I have a number of core moods or core emotions that define me, some negative and some positive. There is always something attached to each of them, the only thing that changes is which one I focus on. If you ever had the feeling that "you move from one thing to the next, there's never a break" then you will probably relate to this. Each emotion in essence is a queue, when the first item is dealt with the next one falls into place and we consider how important it is and whether or not it should take priority over the others.
The length of the queue does not imply priority, we chose to give priority to whichever queue we are predisposed to focus on, through a combination of our overall cynicism, pessimism, naivety, and optimism. As we experience life and gather things to contemplate and mull over in our spare time they are added to the appropriate queue - indifference being the longest as we are most likely to experience many things which we do not hold any specific view upon - things which do not directly affect our mood but are things that we will continue to contemplate after we have experienced them, one would hope this blog post would be included in that queue, something to think about after you have read it.
Note: This idea of 'Emotive Queues' should not be confused with Emotive Cues - an existing principle under which a person's feelings are controlled by stimuli intended to provoke a given reaction i.e. a 'cue' to that emotion.
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