emotional extinction

You can be fully alive
and still… absent.

Not in body.
In awareness. In sensation. In truth.

This is what I call emotional extinction —
the slow disappearance of feeling
in a life that keeps moving.

It doesn’t happen in one moment.
It happens over time.

✧ You stop crying at beauty
✧ You stop pausing before you respond
✧ You stop asking yourself if you still care
✧ You become functional. Efficient. Numb.

And the scary part?

Everyone applauds you for it.

Because our world rewards the material —
what we can show, measure, produce.

But none of those things feel alive without feeling.

That’s the great illusion:
A life can look full
and be completely hollow inside.

So maybe death isn’t when the body stops.
Maybe it’s when your experience of yourself goes silent
inside a life that still performs like everything is fine.

✧ quiet prompt:

What part of you has been functioning… but not feeling?

🌒 go deeper:

→ read: the neuroscience of aliveness, affective flattening, and internal deadness → chapter: decoding