Category Archives: A-Z challenge

Alphabetical Emotions : Z is reached

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Z is reached. How does it feel.  Relief tinged with sadness. Twenty-six posts completed with this being the last one. I have met some wonderful people through this challenge and it was my fault that I didn’t meet more. I … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Yellow

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Yellow is the opposite to courage. It is cowardice or lack of courage. In the playground children would taunt “What are yer? Yeller.” I can tell you I have the feeling of being yellow whenever courage is required unless the … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Xeroxed

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

To feel xeroxed is to feel vulnerable, to feel that you could be copied. Although the emotion is not new the name has come into being sometime in the sixties or seventies. Xerox the company made it’s name with the … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Wonder

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Wonder is a wonderful thing. Wonder as an emotion is probably akin to surprise and possibly the awe that people experience when they experience something rare or unexpected. Children see most of the world with wonder. When they are born … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Vain

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this song is about you Don’t you? Don’t you? Those that are vain have a high self-esteem, they feel good about themselves … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Unhappy

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I’m sure that we are all unhappy at times. If we aren’t happy then obviously we are unhappy. I see it as a kind of neutral position to be in. You need this neutral position in order to know that you … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: The Cloud

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Tonight I was going to talk about terror. Terror is so close to fear that if you want to read about it I will direct you to my post on fear found at  https://irenewaters19.com/2014/04/07/4125/ Sometimes you just have to escape … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Sorrow

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Sorrow is such an empty, gut twisting feeling. It is neither a positive nor a negative emotion – it is just a natural response, a necessary healing response to a loss or a disappointment or some other calamity which occurs … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Rage

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

When I grew up rage was violent, uncontrollable anger such as I described in my first emotion anger    https://irenewaters19.com/?s=Anger Nowadays the Australian youth have a lot of rage on board. They go to rage parties where excessive drinking, drug taking … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Emotions: Queasy

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Queasy in itself is not an emotion but it is how I feel when I haven’t done anything wrong (or perhaps I have) and I am summonsed to appear before an authoritarian type of figure. This in my younger days … Continue reading →

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