I found a perfect analogy for my emotions: Ketchup!

[Nervous Rex]

I realized yesterday that my emotions are either very muted or overwhelming. Something can happen and my reaction will be ... nothing. But at other times, the emotions just come all at once.

I thought, "My emotions are like a bottle of ketchup - you either get nothing or you get everything at once."

I have "Ketchup Emotions". I'm going to use that to describe myself from now on.


Here's what made me think about it:

Yesterday, I was helping someone move stuff from a storage unit. We met at the guy's house and wound up waiting half an hour while he looked for the gate code for the storage facility. He came out and told me, "My wife said she gave you the card with the gate code on it." I had helped them move stuff in and out of these storage units in the past, but I was bewildered that they thought I had their card. It slowly dawned on me that he was mad and she was trying to deflect his anger by blaming me. I thought - I should be really mad about that - I should feel insulted! But, I barely reacted.

Then, driving with my children a bit later, I played songs from "Phineas and Ferb" on the radio (at their request). When it got to one of the songs that I really like, I started singing along and enjoyed it so much that I got choked up. I'm over 50 years old, and I'm tearing up over a song from a cartoon.

That's when I realized that I have Ketchup Emotions.

 

[Storm Hess]

I realized yesterday that my emotions are either very muted or overwhelming. Something can happen and my reaction will be ... nothing. But at other times, the emotions just come all at once.

I thought, "My emotions are like a bottle of ketchup - you either get nothing or you get everything at once."

I have "Ketchup Emotions". I'm going to use that to describe myself from now on.


Here's what made me think about it:

Yesterday, I was helping someone move stuff from a storage unit. We met at the guy's house and wound up waiting half an hour while he looked for the gate code for the storage facility. He came out and told me, "My wife said she gave you the card with the gate code on it." I had helped them move stuff in and out of these storage units in the past, but I was bewildered that they thought I had their card. It slowly dawned on me that he was mad and she was trying to deflect his anger by blaming me. I thought - I should be really mad about that - I should feel insulted! But, I barely reacted.

Then, driving with my children a bit later, I played songs from "Phineas and Ferb" on the radio (at their request). When it got to one of the songs that I really like, I started singing along and enjoyed it so much that I got choked up. I'm over 50 years old, and I'm tearing up over a song from a cartoon.

That's when I realized that I have Ketchup Emotions.

Exactly! What is really annoying is when people smack the bottom of the bottle.

 

[Pats]

I dreamed one night that I was searching for plaid socks in drawer after drawer and all there was were white socks. I decided then that I was a plaid in a world full of white. Since then I try to only wear plaid socks - do you know how hard it is to find plaid socks? I already mostly wore plaid flannel shirts over t's.

I'm plaid and you're ketchup.

 

[Nervous Rex]

Also:

Shake and shake the catsup bottle.
None will come, and then a lot'll.
― Richard Armour

 

[Nervous Rex]

I decided then that I was a plaid in a world full of white.

I like that analogy. I sometimes tell people that I march to the beat of my own bagpipes.

 

[Tom]

I like and use the different drummer analogy. But mine are Aainjaa, a Colombian Drum band.

 

[SPEED RACER]

But the plastic ketchup containers lol

 

[Nervous Rex]

But the plastic ketchup containers lol

If those must be used, then I'm a plastic ketchup container that can only be opened by driving over it with a car. You either get no ketchup or ketchup everywhere - nothing in between.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Also:

Shake and shake the catsup bottle.
None will come, and then a lot'll.
― Richard Armour

Catsup is thixotropic, sorry working with paint so long could not resist.

 

[watersprite]

This is synchronicity, which seems to be happening a lot lately.
Anyway
- I was just thinking about this, this morning.

I went to put ketchup on the plate of sardines and it went blam! all over me. Luckily I was still wearing the big painting shirt over the rest of my clothes.

My emotions are like that too.

10 months 10 months 10 months.
Not a word. So I fling paint at paper and canvas and hike into the dark canyones and care even when the ketchup just sits there stubbornly silent.


It’s frustrating when I get so dam exhilarated with life and there is no one here.

No one gets it.

 

[Aspychata]

Hey ketchup. Cool post. Maybe l am more soy sauce. A bit salty and watery but you still need soy sauce for 89.9 % of dishes. And a dash of ketchup.

 

[Crossbreed]

Heinz Ketchup 'Anticipation' Commercial (1977)​

 

[FlowerFlo]

I think i also have Ketchup Emotions.