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From: pooh@ut-sally.UUCP (Pooh @ the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen)
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Subject: Re: Accolade for Ms Julie Hoff
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 10:50:38 EDT
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> I have felt the emotional pain involved in a break-up.  I did
> not "choose" to feel the pain; the only choice involved was to understand why
> the pain was there, and to do something about it.  I also get a feeling of
> peace and fulfillment when I ride my bicycle down quiet country roads.  


>    To address more specifically the above quotation, when saying "no" to
> somebody "move[s] me a bit," that is emotion; and you chose what to do about
> it, not what to feel, since the feeling was there already.  Now, you may
> be rationalizing the emotion away, but that still hasn't prevented you from
> *feeling* it, however quickly you dispose of it.  
>    Let's just hope that you two don't start rationalizing away the "up"
> emotions as well as the "down" (I didn't want to use good/bad, 
> since pain isn't necessarily bad).
> 

Thanks, Vicious Oyster, for putting it more clearly than
I did.

Pooh

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