Tag Archives: feelings

Inside-jokes and knowledge create communities

I talked in a past article on how inside-jokes work, and how they help building relationships, as individuals, or groups. I also highlighted the fact that there’s no need for them to be jokes, rather than plain knowledge. Specially if that knowledge brings you some kind of emotion: sharing that emotion with someone else, and [...]

Inside-jokes for relationships?

I don’t know if it’s a well-known fact —or if it’s a fact at all— that inside-jokes help a lot in build a relationship with anybody. Friends, colleagues, even people you like in a “couple” way, as far as I know, feel closer to you when you can establish a joke only the two —or [...]

Old experiences treated as new, different ones

I wrote an article these days about how new experiences have a thrilling effect in us. They certainly cause us to feel weird, and when the outcome turns out to be good, we not only feel good, but really good. So, yes, that’s more or less the thing with new experiences. Now, old experiences also [...]