Feeling and Expressing Frustration
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There’s a feeling that stands out like a wall: Frustration, foreclosing on fates considered and hoped for. You see your hope coming closer, almost happening... but no, it was undelivered, unattained. An exogenous shock.
It didn’t work. It didn’t happen. The meaning wasn’t there, the thread you were pulling led nowhere. And you can weep and you can sob... still no more thread after the fog. Frustration is the affective consequence of the realization of a future amputated, severed from existence.
↳ Feel / Frustration
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Expression serves release, it dignifies the nature of feeling. Frustration, too, asks for release but expressing a feeling with negative charge is tricky. Expression by way of performance or synthesis gives new life to the feeling, has the power to amplify and propagate. Like a live wire, the products of expression become charged, passing the feeling on to others. That’s why frustration is better expressed freeze-dried, inactivated, placed on a tray for appreciation and understanding. Here’s the meaning of frustration, a feeling expressed in hope of handling it better.
↳ TNC / Expression, Fidelity
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