god you know people who proclaim themselves to be hyper rational and logical? and think that they don't let emotions get in the way of the right decision? those people or wildly misunderstanding the fundamental purpose of emotions. without the utmost basic emotional responses (advantageous and adverse) you literally wouldn't be able to understand or make positive and negative connections with things/events. you literally wouldn't be able to tell whether or not getting stabbed is good or bad. you HAVE to feel the bare minimum to make decisions. without emotions you cant figure out which consequences are advantageous or adverse.

why do people treat forgetfulness as a sign of being stupid or bad at something? like, i can sometimes forget which one's a numerator and which one is a denominator but i still understand how fractions work. so how can something as simple as forgetting terms or forgetting something you've memorised make you stupid?

Tip for newbies (and reminder for oldbies): those of us with cheap phones (i.e. 3yo Android that is not gonna get updated) will see your 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎 𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉 (and a lot of newer emojis) as a bunch of character-not-found rectangles whenever we're on mobile. The occasional usage in a post is fine, but geez don't use it as your username if you expect a followback.