Everything I feel is valid

I’m so pleased to be alive in such an emotionally enlightened age. Our emotions are to be explored and processed without end, so that we may experience their pure nature. Everything we feel must be fully experienced, lest we be emotionally neutered. The world is a better place when we all act on every emotion we have. It’s better that way.

For example, I don’t like this club, and I want to leave. Yes, I know I’m out in a group of six people, but I’m not having a good time, and as I’m the most in touch with my feelings of any of us here, my feeling should carry the day. I wish to bend the wills of everyone else in the party to suit my whims, and if I do not get my way, I shall pout and damage everyone’s evening. It’s what I feel, so it is, by definition, valid.

I think I’m going to sleep with that new woman in HR tomorrow. Of course it’s the right thing to do. I mean, what if she’s my soulmate? I can’t let that go. That wouldn’t be expressing everything I’m feeling, and it could damage me emotionally forever. I’m feeling like I want to, and such a feeling must be answered. For all I know, I’ve made a huge mistake in marrying and having children with my wife. I can’t know unless I proceed, and my happiness deserves all of the exploration I can give it. As everything I feel is valid, I must sleep with the new woman in HR. Because I feel it. So it’s valid. Soulmates.

Oh, and by the way, I’m sorry I was a jackass to you on the telephone earlier. You see, my grandmother died. Well, yes, it was some time ago, but still, you know, I’m working through some stuff. I need to get to that healing place, do you know what I mean? That’s what’s most important. It wasn’t really me calling you a bitch; it was my emotions. And as I’m in still in that exploratory phase, experiencing all of their depth and wonder, I’ll trust you understand. That’s what a true friend would do. That’s also why I need every thought and deed we experience together for the foreseeable future to be about me. If you’re not willing, then you’re just not as emotionally pure as I am. That’s what I feel, so it’s valid.

Unchecked emotional exploration defines ultimate validation. I’m so pleased we’re alive in a society, in an age, in a time, that understands that.

Group hug. Fuck you.

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