oh, emotions
In the midst of reading 9 (yes, count them, NINE) articles regarding the theory that holds that there exist basic emotions...(Jim Russell, how you consume my Sundays)....I reflect on my current emotional state (while productively procrastinating).
What I try to describe here is an emotion that might fall under safety or comfort. It's POURING outside. Not the pouring of a spring shower, but rain that lets us all know that fall is here and winter fast approaches. A rain that beats on the window, seemingly looking for a way to get in. But yet, I'm warm inside, with a couple candles burning and the comforts of the indoors around me. I am cozy, safe, and as listed, comforted.
Emotions are certainly odd. Drawing lines between what is or is not emotion is an act that is both very difficult and very arbitrary. Is what I feel right now an emotion? Why are fear and sadness undisputed basic emotions while pride, joy, love, and contentment are reliably left out of such classifications? There are so many nuances to subjective experience that I sometimes wonder how or why I feel upon researching them as if there is a way to blanketly describe something so diverse.
Just some food for thought I guess. 'Night.
What I try to describe here is an emotion that might fall under safety or comfort. It's POURING outside. Not the pouring of a spring shower, but rain that lets us all know that fall is here and winter fast approaches. A rain that beats on the window, seemingly looking for a way to get in. But yet, I'm warm inside, with a couple candles burning and the comforts of the indoors around me. I am cozy, safe, and as listed, comforted.
Emotions are certainly odd. Drawing lines between what is or is not emotion is an act that is both very difficult and very arbitrary. Is what I feel right now an emotion? Why are fear and sadness undisputed basic emotions while pride, joy, love, and contentment are reliably left out of such classifications? There are so many nuances to subjective experience that I sometimes wonder how or why I feel upon researching them as if there is a way to blanketly describe something so diverse.
Just some food for thought I guess. 'Night.