Emma Chamberlain
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What a relief.
And that goes for like so many different types of social situations in life, whether it's platonic, romantic, having secrets and stuff.
It's painful.
It's uncomfortable.
So much easier just to like say how you're feeling.
Obviously, you got to have you got to have tact and social cues.
Sure.
But I don't know.
I think we keep a lot of things a secret.
We don't address a
that are sort of uncomfortable or a bit weird when we could and it would be much more comfortable for everyone involved.
Like I think a lot of times we as humans miss opportunities to make situations that are uncomfortable way less uncomfortable.
Option two, if you don't really feel like a conversation is necessary or you don't think it would be helpful or it's the idea of it makes you way too uncomfortable, you can't even fathom it, perhaps just change your perspective, okay?
Perhaps it's weirder or more tense than it needs to be because you're putting a lot of energy into thinking about it, thus giving it this weight in your mind.
Perhaps you're building it up into this thing that it doesn't need to be.
You're like, oh, this is so weird.
Like we were friends, now we're not.
Now we're working together.
and we're around each other, and we were close, and now we're not.
It's weird.