/lit/ - Literature

>>17956791
Y-y-yuri

>>17237486
30 is beautiful. Wish I was that young again.

>>17237642
Isn’t it? I know it’s just his theory, but it’s quite persuasive

Emotions are just physiological responses that you've learned have meaning and force a certain perspective on you. You can gain control through self-awareness, paying attention to your mind and grasping how these unconscious, automatic mechanisms create your reality.

First you perceive a bodily experience and you interpret it as carrying some kind of information about the world. For instance, when you are sad, your body tells you that you are experiencing some kind of loss and your mind is essentially forced into that perspective, trying to validate it. The entire trick is to get yourself to stop associating that bodily feeling with that relational theme and it just becomes meaningless noise.

Emotion can sometimes be useful, like how anger puts you in a perspective to be aggressive, but in general it just creates a bias and due to its unconscious, automatic nature, you're at whim of your previous conditioning.

You’re perfectly qualified to write a story of first loves, but will likely fail if you try to portray something realistic or complex about relationships.
It’s been a popular genre for millenniums, so don’t sweat it, but do some research. Daphnis and Chloe, Romeo and Juliette, etc.