Ananth's Blog

 I am reading a book titled "Atlas of the heart" by Brené Brown. This book has identified about 87 emotions and has taken upon itself to describe and delineate it from each other. Especially those ones that we easily confuse with each other. The premise of this book is that if we can correctly identify an emotion that we are having and have a language to describe it, it helps us to navigate them better. I somehow am gravitating towards this central premise. I have always felt that my blog - which has become a place where I try to articulate what is going on with me has been strangely therapeutic. Especially when I go through a tumultuous experience , if I am able to access a vocabulary, a metaphor or a story through which I can transcribe what is happening within me to a sheet of paper, I find a liberating release. It is almost as if half of my issues have already been resolved/dissolved just by calling it out. I wonder if it is because someone else is reading it and empathiz