What is your Favorite Emotion?

[Edwardo Piet]

Rage, anger, and hate.  The full range.

I wish you could feel your favorite emotion towards me, if it made you happy! -- within reason

[emjay]

I'll go with love, like EP said, and second I'd go for the feeling of potential, if it is a feeling... when anything seems possible and the whole world of choice is open to you... a feeling that disappears and is replaced by something else when you narrow down that choice to a particular course. I think that feeling's hard to beat and closest perhaps to excitement or curiosity on that list.

Beautiful post: And if you add all those feelings together (apart from the narrowing down part, all the positive ones I mean) you describe exactly how I am feeling today, funnily enough.

Love, potential, excitement, curiousity.... actually, this, this is how I'm feeling today:

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Feeling like an especially good person today.

Feeling proud of who I am and how I am conducting myself.

Feeling glad to  be alive.

Feeling very alive, as in "lively".

Feeling absolutely fucking amazing.

Feeling holistic: as in, feeling like I am fully expressing every mental part of myself and my personality and not repressing myself even unwittingly (I mean I would't know if I was but I honestly feel like I am exremely irrepressible right now).

Feeling expressive.

Feeling exremely fucking amazing (ha, just realized it's similar to what I wrote above, bear with me, enjoying myself here).

Feeling like a fucking epic person.

Feeling like my epicness-as-a-person is not even remotely unique or special, and I'm glad of that.

Feeling positively socially influentical despite my general social ineptitude.

Feeling intensely cheerfully authentic and expansively honest.

Feeling like I no longer underestimate or overestimate myself so much, whilst I am in this mood.

Feeling like I am enjoying this mood so fucking much that I am not afraid to lose it regardless of the fact I know it's not permanent.

Feeling like this mood can always return to me.

Feeling like I've had this mood before but it's even more intense than previously.

Feeling fucking alive and high on life.

Feeling like bringing people together.

Feeling like a positive general influence.

Feeling agendaless.

Feeling simultaneously egoless and egotistical but feeling like it's not a contradiction because I'm being equivocal.

Feeling like I'm fucking proud of myself for making this thread.

Feeling like anyone could make a thread like this, and feeling like that in no way discredits me, I'd be proud of whoever made it.

I'm so glad I made this thread I feel like it's a nice thread.

Even silly turtles can make a nice thread sometime.

Feeling inspired.

Feeling loving and loved.

Feeling temporarily entirely free of mental blocks and also more free of mental blocks on a general level.

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And actually I'll add to that list: feeling the direct opposite of spite, too, and feeling like I'm seeing the good in absolutely everyone.

Good for you Evie, I'm glad you're feeling so wonderful I wish I had some of that; I'm neither in love nor seeing much of that potential in my world at the moment but I can but hope for a return of those feelings Hope's another one... life without hope is not worth living.

[Edwardo Piet]

I lost hope once. It was still worth living because unbeknownst to me at the time my hope was always inevitably going to return

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If that reminds me of a song lyric "I was always returning..." I forget what it's from, I'll try to remember. It's not a song anyone would recognize besides myself and perhaps a handful of others. They're a very obscure band. Anyhoo. Life is good.

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[Losty]

It's a difficult choice. Emotions are amazing. I think many people don't appreciate them. I was raised not be emotional. Silently contented was my parents' emotion of choice for their girls. Crying was often punished, anger was always punished, excessive happiness was frowned upon and also punish if it included any loud noises (like too much laughing, jumping up and down with Eee). For a long time I struggled to express emotions and for a period...when my emotional health hit rock bottom, I couldn't feel emotions at all. I always refer to that time as when I didn't exist. If you've ever felt such a complete lack of emotion...it's kind of awful.

I like being a bit angry when it's justified. Especially if it means I'm brave enough to stand up for myself. I like being so happy that I can't control the noises that come out of my mouth. I like allowing myself to be completely crushed with sadness, especially because it makes the sadness last a much shorter period of time when you let yourself feel it. Obviously love. Love is a blissful feeling. I don't think it can be so simple as to be called an emotion though, love tends to come with a healthy dose of every emotion.

I think misery is my favorite I don't actually enjoy feeling it but it brings out my creative side. I do my best writing when I let myself drown in my own darkness. The only bad thing is, it can be hard to pull yourself free if you're not careful.

[Losty]

Apparently you haven't figured out how to use the ignore feature?
It's really not that hard, but if you'd like some help I can walk you through it.

True: but no one is allowed to use the ignore feature on me because I'm a staff member.

EP, if you don't want to read my big blocks of text I suggest you just scroll past my posts. That's my advice.

A well kept secret that most people don't know, human beings come with a built in ignore feature that no amount of forum software can block

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Also, @OP I appreciate the poll, but I am unable to participate due to lack of "fuck all polls" option.

[Little lunch]

Anger can give you a feeling of power. But that feeling of power only feels good because you need it to replace something.
Anger hurts you mentally and physically. All negative feelings do.
That's my opinion.

[Edwardo Piet]

You are a truly beautiful person Losty. What a fantastically emotional post on emotions.

I like allowing myself to be completely crushed with sadness, especially because it makes the sadness last a much shorter period of time when you let yourself feel it.

Very true, never thought of it that way before neither

I always refer to that time as when I didn't exist. If you've ever felt such a complete lack of emotion...it's kind of awful.

And believeeeeeee me, I know what that feels like. Or rather, I know what it feels like to feel nothing but a lack and a starvation of emotion, and to be consumed by the loathing of my own inability to feel anything else -- far worse than any despair or desperation I've felt, it's living hell.

And now, to end on a positive note, that's the direct opposite of this:

Obviously love. Love is a blissful feeling. I don't think it can be so simple as to be called an emotion though, love tends to come with a healthy dose of every emotion.

It's expansive. It's inspiring. It's empowering. It's enhancing. It indeed is healthy and it opens you up. It's life-affirming. It's wonderful and it's beautiful.

[Losty]

Anger can give you a feeling of power. But that feeling of power only feels good because you need it to replace something.
Anger hurts you mentally and physically. All negative feelings do.
That's my opinion.

I think negative feelings are quite healthy as long as you don't dwell on them.

[Edwardo Piet]

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If that reminds me of a song lyric "I was always returning..." I forget what it's from, I'll try to remember. It's not a song anyone would recognize besides myself and perhaps a handful of others. They're a very obscure band. Anyhoo. Life is good.

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Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZrTQ8qmr8

I doubt many people, or even any people, will press play on it or have the patience or desire to listen to it all, but there it is nevertheless. I like that song. I feel no desire to be anything other than irrepressible today, everything just feels so easy: I just want to share myself with everyone. I feel... open-ended. I have no qualms or anxieties about coming across as odd, either. I'm just me. If no one knows what I'm talking about, that's okay. I can talk their language too (provided it's English, lulz) But here's mine.

[Little lunch]

Anger can give you a feeling of power. But that feeling of power only feels good because you need it to replace something.
Anger hurts you mentally and physically. All negative feelings do.
That's my opinion.

I think negative feelings are quite healthy as long as you don't dwell on them.

Apparently there are many studies to prove some sought of link between the mental and physical.
Healthy mind, healthy body. Psychosomatic.
And it goes both ways.
Eg. Am I really feeling sad or do I just have a bad dietary intake and don't exercise enough?
It makes sense to me but I could be wrong of course. :-)