 Emotional literacy is the ability to identify two emotions that seem the same, but they're different. Like empathy and sympathy. Like guilt and shame. Shame and humiliation. Loneliness and solitude. But if you wrongly name an emotion, you will suffer under the false identity of the emotion you think you have but you don't. And people accuse you or use language towards you who you love and respect who say, I don't like how angry you are lately. I don't think I'm angry. I think I'm frustrated. I think I'm passionate about this but I don't think it's angry. And if you accept it as anger, you'll dial it down when you should be dialing it up. It doesn't always come out perfectly.