Rambles

Psychological concepts can take physical form.

Good interior design is based on feelings manifest into furniture, into seats, and chairs. Tables that hold conversations, doors that open into new rooms of opportunity, windows that frame a vast expansive view. Physical form can create psychological concepts.

Like all things physical, they have mass. Weight. A presence that you can touch, and feel.

Feelings have weight. Some more than others. Some are heavier than others. Some lighter. Floaty, weightless feelings that when within you, make you take on that form. Feelings like vehicles that take you to and from places.

But unlike physical things, feelings and concepts can be both heavy and light at different times. The weight you feel can be changeable. In the physical world this would only be possible if you manipulated the object. Subjected it to something external. Is that what we do to our internal feelings? Subject them to external factors that change them?

Buddhism touches upon this. We allow our internal state to be changed by external factors, manipulation, contortion.

When we contextualise our feelings onto the tapestry of our external world, they can be changed. Sometimes they become heavier in certain lights, spaces, environments. Sometimes lighter. Either way, when manifest they hold a weight which like a physical object we can choose to affect the weight of.