Journal 69: Make It New

Art IS a joyous thing. I have to agree to that because an art that is portraying a smile, a warm family reunion, a laughter, or a feast can all be affecting our mood. We are highly sophisticated, empathic creatures, we can take on emotions of others and assume how they are feeling by their expressions or their actions. When we see a portrait of a laughing child, we don't just acknowledge that he is happy and that he is laughing. We search through our own histories and remember how the laugh and smile felt like and then we use that emotional history to assume that he's feeling the same way. Mirror neurons in our brain help us to identify other's emotion to better link with others. The reason we have these strong mirror neuron and emotional connection with other people, and also some creatures with an abundance of facial expressions, is because we are highly social creatures and these mirror neurons and the ability to help us understand and connect with other people's emotion can help us in dire situation or help us better survive or stand out in a crowd. Suppose I know our boss is angry and my colleagues that don't know about it makes a joke about his fat wife, he will be immediately fired, without income, and then eventually starved to death, while I would calm the boss down and get a promotion and have 65 babies due to my economic supremacy.