[iamtew]

The real world don't care about feelings.Feelings are extremely subjective making these kind of statements quite vague.

As a person with alexithymia, this is so confusing, I have no idea what "feels good" is supposed to mean. I know it's not bad, but that's a big spectrum of meaning. Good doesn't mean great or brilliant either. Just confusing.

Emotional blindness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia

[NateEag]

Physical reality is barely changed by peoples' emotions (small shifts in their biochemistry).

Physical reality is very often changed significantly by the choices people make, which are rooted in their emotions.

So, while the universe as such may not care about emotions, they still matter as long as you're interacting with humans (including oneself).

FWIW, I'd not heard of alexithymia before, and I now am thinking I may have had it most of my life.

I've gotten much better at recognizing emotions in myself and others over the past two years through a combination of prayer, therapy, introspection (a skeptic might argue my prayer was just an obscured form of introspection), and reading (Non-violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg helped me immensely).

I've seen the world become much more comprehensible as this has changed - other humans are a big part of the world, given how dependent we all are on civilization for survival and thriving, and as hinted above, I now understand my own actions and choices much better too. Not being able to recognize my emotions didn't mean I had none.

[falcolas]

FWIW, "feel" and "good" as used in this article is not about emotions; it's more of a shortcut that means "Do I trust that this is doing what I expect it to regarding (safety | stability | understandability)?"

"Feel": "I trust."

"Good": "Does what I expect it to."

[NateEag]

"Trust" is (or at least can be) an emotion.