emotional control

[zelazny]

I'm kind of posting this because i'm wondering about the way you can control your emotions, because i'm.. well... sort of doing it, allowing myself to be happier when i'd normally be feeling down, or unhappy, just.. i'm wondering in how much this is a 'freeing' yourself of emotions or just simply holding a mask to yourself.
Anyone with something similar? What happened? And do you think it's just fooling yourself, or is it something that you can really do?

[TastinGood]

doesnt exist.

[SHATOUSHKA]

OLIVES!

[SHATOUSHKA]

ok seriously... i think there is a difference
between controlling your emotions to a respectable
(or even minimal) level as opposed to exchanging
one emotion for another.

i think it is wrong to do the latter.

[zelazny]

yes, i agree, but is it possible to do?
And do you do it too?
Or am i just going wierd here?

[TastinGood]

going wierd?

Youve been a permanent resident for quite some time.

[SHATOUSHKA]

i muffle emotion consistantly.

i've been doing it so long... it seems i can
do it without much thought.

[zelazny]

i'm not sure.. i'm..bending it, in a way.
i notice that i'm stuck on a project, and i feel bad about it, but then i look at the situation and think that the only one holding me unhappy is me. so i, sort of.. bend it, by making my own situation absurd in my eyes, which brings me some happiness, but i can only do it on those cases, i guess.
I can muffle them too, but i'm trying not to, even though i'm doing it more and more.

[SHATOUSHKA]

its better to examine the situation from a new
perspective and find its absurdity.... but i
don't think i become happy about that. i become
more complacent.

[zelazny]

I think i need to define what i mean with happy, but basically, i tend to see some absurd form of humor in it, which makes me laugh, and makes me feel a lot better.
When i rationalize my emotions (in the way that i consider the situtaion and see that being in a certain emotional state doesn't help) i tend to go more to the complacency, i guess.