Second my Emotion

What positive emotion do you feel most often?

In looking at this prompt, I first asked myself, “What are the positive emotions?” My mind then flew back to Catholic school and free associated learning about the different mysteries of the rosary: Joyful, Sorrowful, and…the other one. I can never remember it without googling.

Glorious! And I see Pope John Paul II added the Luminous. Yes, a piece of Catholicism tucked in the back of my mind.

To answer my first question above, I googled “positive emotions,” and was surprised at the result: according to the World Wide Web, there are a dozen of them, which makes me think that the world should be a better place if there are so many chances to be positive (especially since the web only lists 8 negative ones).

The positive ones are:

• Happiness
• Interest
• Gratitude
• Hope
• Love
• Amusement
• Pride
• Awe
• Confidence
• Inspiration
• Satisfaction
• Serenity

Now, some of these don’t sound like emotions to me. Interest and confidence seem more like states of mind than emotions. And is Hope an emotion or just a feeling? Or is a feeling an emotion? Maybe I’m starting to split hairs now, trying to contend with an internet-generated list that casts such a wide net.

But to answer the question, using the list above, I guess I’d have to say Love, since I express it in various ways at home.

How about yours? Leave a message in the comments, and please like and follow! I’m confident you will! 😉