To an INTP emotions are like butterflies
They're rare, fragile, and intensly beautiful. Once you catch them, you're not really sure what to do with them, if you try too hard to embrace them you might harm them in the process, and if you don't you might just lose them completely, but they're always so pure and innocent you're scared to hold them at all.
Often you opt to just not feel them whatsoever because usually when you feel emotions superficially, there's a void that lies beneath, they're not really there and you can tell, it's just an action for appearances sake, it's not real or honest its just something you do because you have to, like when a friend tells a joke you dont find funny at all but you laugh anyway, however when you feel them for real, that's all there is, all your thoughts are overruled by them, and that makes you uncomfortable, you're so used to a logical thought process that emotions feel like a wrench in the works, like they're in the way... and in a sense they are, like when you catch a butterfly and all you can focus on is the beauty of its wings, when you catch feelings for something it's so prevalent, so upfront, all you can do is try to mitigate it as best you can, because you fear losing that logical sense of self, and you fear being overrun by illogical emotions.
When you're like me, most of your life you feel like you're sitting in an empty, cold, grey room, there is no feeling, there is no certainty outside of your own logical process, but sometimes a butterfly floats in, its coloured wings completely opposing the grayscale background of the room you find yourself in, sometimes you take hold of it, sometimes you don't out of fear of it being harmed, but it's there, gently floating in the space in front of you, sometimes it gets hurt, sometimes it doesn't, but you're always reluctant to reach out to it, that's what emotion is to an INTP.
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