Mood and emotions are the most important things in life

[Deleted member 7448]

I'm odd in many ways, but what even I find odd about myself is how I alternate between very happy and content about being an incel and very miserable.

A while ago I realized that even more than our thoughts, we are actually our emotions. I used to think that what we think is who we are, but I found that my thoughts are often unreliable, very dependent on one other thing - emotion. As rational as one thinks they are, everything is actually influenced by mood.

And I believe this is relevant to us incels because most of us lead a quite miserable life, at least in our own subjective view. And perhaps if we found a way to control our emotions, moods and create a better environment for ourselves that can improve our moods, perhaps then we can live a better life, in spite of the huge debuff applied to our happiness by the lack of female affection.

 

[Emba]

Interesting concept.

Emotions seem to have motion and energy while thought seems to be more of a tool. Emotions are like the hands needed to use the tool.(?)

Motivation requires a positive mood. Hope for a future. Without a future hope motivation dwindles.

I believe in the multi layered person. Perhaps emotions are a core layer?