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Worst Emotion
15 years ago
What is the worst feeling in the world?
What's the one emotion you hate above all others? I'm sure someone would think anger or sadness. Maybe even joyless boredom. The problem with all those emotions, or at least the thing that limits them from being the "Worst" emotions, is they're easy to get perspective on. You can examine why you're sad or mad, you can get to a root. Even joyless boredom can be combated with a closer look.
The worst emotion is embarrassment. It is actually one of the worst forms of punishment to use on a child; my sociology teacher used to say "Think of it as In-Bare-Ass", and according to the statistics it's one of the easiest ways to damage a child's self worth. I'm 20 something years old now and I still have problems with it.
What sets it apart from anger or sorrow or boredom is it's an emotion that derives from to much examination; it's statement of your opinion on your self-worth, exposed suddenly, like someone's ripped a bandaid off a wound. It stings and it festers and the more you look at it the quicker you want the bandage back on.
There is nothing I hate more than being embarrassed; I do a good job of avoiding it often times, but occasionally the most unexpected and unintentional things just make me embarrassed.
Another reason I think embarrassment is the worst emotion; I can't think back on a time that I was very sad, or very angry and get sad or angry now; Embarrassment is the only emotion I know of that doesn't get better with time. That time when I was five and my sister caught me in her bikini, with the top stuffed, still embarrasses me now. I don't get angry about when I was in sixth grade and some of my friends thought it would be funny if they told the Principal that I called some kid a nigger and threatened to kill him; I don't get weepy eyed remembering 9/11; but god damn it, mention that bathing suit and I just want to crawl into the Earth and die.
...Wait, shit.
What's the one emotion you hate above all others? I'm sure someone would think anger or sadness. Maybe even joyless boredom. The problem with all those emotions, or at least the thing that limits them from being the "Worst" emotions, is they're easy to get perspective on. You can examine why you're sad or mad, you can get to a root. Even joyless boredom can be combated with a closer look.
The worst emotion is embarrassment. It is actually one of the worst forms of punishment to use on a child; my sociology teacher used to say "Think of it as In-Bare-Ass", and according to the statistics it's one of the easiest ways to damage a child's self worth. I'm 20 something years old now and I still have problems with it.
What sets it apart from anger or sorrow or boredom is it's an emotion that derives from to much examination; it's statement of your opinion on your self-worth, exposed suddenly, like someone's ripped a bandaid off a wound. It stings and it festers and the more you look at it the quicker you want the bandage back on.
There is nothing I hate more than being embarrassed; I do a good job of avoiding it often times, but occasionally the most unexpected and unintentional things just make me embarrassed.
Another reason I think embarrassment is the worst emotion; I can't think back on a time that I was very sad, or very angry and get sad or angry now; Embarrassment is the only emotion I know of that doesn't get better with time. That time when I was five and my sister caught me in her bikini, with the top stuffed, still embarrasses me now. I don't get angry about when I was in sixth grade and some of my friends thought it would be funny if they told the Principal that I called some kid a nigger and threatened to kill him; I don't get weepy eyed remembering 9/11; but god damn it, mention that bathing suit and I just want to crawl into the Earth and die.
...Wait, shit.
And , Uggh! I know. What was I thinking?
It's so that we don't ever even consider doing that same something shameful ever again, I guess. It's effective, anyway. It sticks so deeply. I'll never get over so many stupid little experiences. :<
Fuck anger, you get over it and move on. Sadness heals with time, even though it still stings.
EMBARRASSMENT NEVER GOES AWAY. I can't remember every time I've gotten angry or sad over stuff, but GOD DAMN I remember every embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me. ALSO: Embarrassment is the only emotion that reaches you even if it's happening to someone else! I get angry for people sure, but it's never more then me saying, "THAT BITCH!" or something along those lines. When one of my friend's get embarrassed I literally want to hide my face in the pillows with them because I don't know what to say to make it better, which makes me embarrassed! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!!
I remember once in high school at lunch, my current boyfriend thought I was cheating on him because I was hanging out with a girl who cheated on her boyfriend. As I recounted the story to my best friend, I failed to notice said girl was standing right behind me =n=; Naturally, I apologized, but it still didn't take away the fact that when I turned around I could literally feel a black hole in stomach and I almost barfed -n-;
Embarrassment is the only emotion I've ever SERIOUSLY thought about calling a bomb threat into the school for. I would have rather been arrested for threatening the school then had to go up there and face all those bitches in first period =n=;