Do people know how you are feeling?
I think it's pretty obvious to people when I'm angry.
Probably pretty clear when I'm happy.
And, usually, I want them to know those things. I want that clerk to feel my anger as if it was made of stone. I want my friends to know that when I laugh at their jokes, I'm actually laughing.
But what about those other emotions? The ones I don't really want people to sense?
Fear. Insecurity. Sadness. Boredom.
How transparent am I? How about you?
Good question. One colleauge on the working-group set told me: you have a really good poker face. But I wouldn't be able to hide anything from my girlfriend.
I guess that says I go to some lengths to hide my feelings from the general public but I'm not capable of hiding them from people I know.
Posted by: unstablehuman at April 18, 2003 04:13 PM