A study published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences suggests that there are as many as 27 different categories of emotions.
Robert Plutchik believed that humans can experience over 34,000 unique emotions but, ordinarily, they experience eight primary emotions.
I dislike them all: unobtainable, unachievable, unsustainable, some undesirable.
Wars have been fought.
Statues and buildings built.
Movies, books, poems, songs written.
We pine. We mourn. We grieve.
We love. We loose. We sing.
We shout. We cry. We rejoice.
But only for the briefest of time.
That feeling slides into memory.
A drug for the mind.
Fuel for my pen.
Flame for my brain.
Unobtainable, unachievable, unsustainable!
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Interesting info and I like what you did with it!
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Thank you 💕
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devil in the detail
to quote scripture
jonah and the whale
job and the boil postule too!
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When I saw Wheel of Emotion, I was thinking like, spin the wheel and it’ll land on a random emotion and I wondered how would work. Ha!
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Spinning a wheel might be better than the wheel we are on.
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I’m not certain I’ve even felt more than 8 emotions. Certainly not 34,000! That’s a lifetime of days.
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Science can’t be content with saying ‘look a star’. We have to name the star, estimate its weight, distinguish it somehow from its neighbors. Put it in a constellation. Dissect it. Turn it inside out. But at the end of the day, it’s still a star. At the end of the day, it’s still an emotion.
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