Getting anxious about Pascha - TLDR people are fake and it bugs me
I know Pascha is the most important event of the year, and I do look forward to that, but I just can't stand it when everyone starts suddenly acting like Pentecostals and jumping up and down with fake joy. There is no other time of year that people act like that in the church, and it just comes off as fake.
There is such a thing as quiet, reverent joy which is how I experience it, which I suppose could just be flat affect/autism, but in any event, yeah, I am really not looking forward to being at the service because of all this fake expression of over-the-top joy. Who am I to say it's fake? I don't know. It just hits my spidey senses as totally fake and I don't like it.
Has anyone else felt this way?
Posted Apr 5, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC
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