If there’s an emotional muscle, that one spasms for me too often, too. I’m not gonna call it “emotional lability,””mood swings,” “splitting,” “panic attacks,” “rage outbursts,” etc anymore, they’re from now on everything will be an “emotional Charlie horse.”

But where is he coming from with that? If you don’t make yourself feel stuff frequently, you don’t feel as strongly when you do? How do I weaken that muscle? because I be strangling myself with it over here.

I’m thinking maybe treating emotions like horses is a better metaphor—learn how to handle them, care for them (it can be expensive! And more expensive if you screw up!), break them, ride them, etc. because unlike muscles, my emotions don’t deteriorate/break down/disappear when I don’t “use” them. If anything, lack of emotion (eventually) leads to too much emotion later. Like someone who hasn’t had protein or moved in a month just managed to beat the shyt out of Chuck Norris.