Emotional work interaction

Emotional work tennis. You have feelings about me? Serve. Blow them out, in all their force. Let's say it's rage. I'm going to try and connect fully with what that rage does to me, and try to stay completely open to the entire emotional experience, not shut down at all. Maybe I'll rage back. Or more likely--knowing me--I'll hurt, feel rotten about myself, guilty, inferior, isolated from the human race, everybody but me can get it right.

I want you to feel what you feel about that. Back and forth, back and forth, bing bang bing. Feelings. Not arguments. Not scoring points. This is how I feel now. Maybe even without words. I think emotional work interaction cleans out feelings between people and leaves a core desire: the need for connection.

I don't think it's a big deal to "find your soul mate." There isn't a living human being that can't be your soul mate. It's a question of how many "soul mates" can you handle? And does it have to be this Eternal thing? How about soul mate here and now. You go away, someone else shows up, soul mate with him or her. Or at least connect as deeply as you can here and now--with whoever's here now.

Anyway, play emotional work tennis, and I think you can be optimally close, optimally interactive--soul mates--with whomever you're with.

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