I was still immersed in yesterday's happiness when today's sadness knocked on my door..
Barbara Fredrickson is one of the world leaders in research about Positive Emotion. She studies 10 : love, joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration and awe. There is quite a range here.
I can think of some examples of the times I experienced each of these emotions such as the first time we went on a date, the first time when we held hands, on our marriage day, when we receive news of becoming first time parents, holding our first born in our arms, listening to late granny telling us her stories of how she successfully raised all six children single-handedly shortly after she gave birth to my aunt and so on. Like most people, there are certain of them that I may experience much more regularly than some of the others.
