01/21/2004 Archived Entry: "Sine Wave"

It seems way too easy to hit emotional highs and lows.

All it takes sometimes to make the day, or even the week, is a good conversation, something nice someone said, or an unexpected statement on a drunken night. You just carry that single moment for as long as it’ll last until it fades into a warm fuzzy memory stacked away somewhere.

And then you have those other days when someone gives you the evil eye, or doesn’t return a phone call, or goes offline without saying goodbye and leaves nagging doubts in your back of your knees for days to come. Or you have those people whom you never want to see and running into them while they’re happy just makes you cringe and colours your day. Maybe a complete stranger does some random act of unkindness and it angers you to the point where you can’t enjoy some wonderful moment you’re having.

Sometimes there’re these crazy bouts of optimism that last a couple of days until reality hits and you think “what the hell have I been wasting all this energy on THAT for?”.

I really wish it weren’t so easy for someone else to make or break the day. And so often it’s completely unintentional on the person’s part because just the fact that they exist could be bothersome.

Replies: 7 comments

You stole my train of thought, bastard...

Posted by Hyperion @ 01/21/2004 06:24 PM EST

Well since you published it, I suppose technically it's your train of thought... but still!!!

Posted by Hyperion @ 01/21/2004 06:24 PM EST

I had a trough today...many troughs recently actually...odd start to the term

Posted by dAN @ 01/21/2004 07:26 PM EST

Hyperion: preemption is the name of the game!

dAN: I thought you were grossly mispelling "thought" whenever you wrote "trough", I had to read your comment like 3 times.

Posted by Rayne @ 01/22/2004 12:45 AM EST

My conclusions are that you are way more emotionally dependent that I would have thought! But really, from the studying I've done in personality psychology, this is sounds like you would score high on extraversion and neuroticism. Both predict emotional reactivity - the contradicting reward and punishment. This explains how just one person or one situation could make or break your day. Very interesting indeed...

Posted by Jenny Smuj @ 01/22/2004 01:52 AM EST

dAN ... don't worry ... it's just january ... you know how some ppl have bad days? well, i have bad months ... and that month is usually january (although, this year, january has been pretty good ... here's hoping it stays that way)

and rayne ... no man is an island ... that is my comment for today

Posted by melpie @ 01/22/2004 10:12 AM EST

ya, bad days suck. if ever i start feeling down, my whole day is shot. i just can't enjoy myself, and i wallow in sorrow

the offspring rules!
worst hangover ever

Posted by shawnathan @ 01/29/2004 12:11 AM EST