#even if it’s cringe

[tonystonem666]

i think this is kinda what we look like

i think we’re all tethered together with a metaphorical string and connected in terms of similarities but disconnected in terms of our sense of self

[drit-writing]

Day 3! Slay! Baby steps, I suppose. I forget how good writing, and being creative in general, feels. I’m starting an outline for one of my final projects that I (basically) have complete creative freedom over- and it feels so good.

Up late at night trying desperately to focus on my developmental psychology textbook as I learn about the brain parts for uptillionth time (really, it’s only the second). And I realize that our older brain, the more “animalistic” one, is the one that’s emotion-based. Sure, our special human brain also deals with emotion, but the animal part? That’s what it lives and breathes. And what does that mean for us, for our early ancestors? Did they love as deeply as we did, experience grief and happiness and fear in all the same ways? Do other mammals, birds, fish, bugs- do they have that capability somewhere?

- (11/19/23 Wrote half-asleep reading my psych textbook talk about how the limbic system,the older parts of the brain, is what’s mainly responsible for emotion)