isn’t it lovely?

Currently listening to: If You Leave – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

I touch you once, I touch you twiceI won’t let go at any priceI need you now like I need you thenYou always said we’d meet again

What emotion do you find the most challenging?

Prompt snagged from: TCMC

The most challenging emotion for me? It’s a toss-up between happiness and love.

Happiness, to me, feels fleeting—like something I can grasp for a moment but can never quite hold onto. And if I’m being completely honest, sometimes I think my brain confuses excitement with happiness. The rush of something new, the anticipation of an event, the thrill of an experience—does that count as happiness? Or is it just dopamine doing its thing?

And love… well, I know my parents loved (or love) me. I know my pets loved me in the purest way possible. But even so, love feels just as momentary as happiness sometimes. People fall in and out of love, friendships fade, and relationships shift. Maybe that’s just the nature of it—impermanent, evolving, never quite as solid as we’d like to believe.


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11 responses to “isn’t it lovely?”

  1. Laura Avatar

    Love is one of those emotions, like happiness, that ebbs and flows, you can feel levels and degrees of it, sometimes more than others

    1. justrojie Avatar

      I think so too!!

  2. Violet Lentz Avatar

    I am nearly 64 and do not know the answer to any of these questions, so maybe we are just not ever meant to know.

    1. justrojie Avatar

      I think you’re right!

  3. ibarynt Avatar

    Happiness is fleeting.

    1. justrojie Avatar

      It really is…for me anyway. My coworker is always happy. She’s so pleasant to be around… I wonder what life might be like for her

      1. ibarynt Avatar

        It is wonderful to be around such people but we also don’t know the unseen . Maybe it is about joy, she has joy.

        1. justrojie Avatar

          That could be it!

  4. Maddie Cochere Avatar

    Ugh.

    Happiness … excitement … I get what you are saying, and I agree.

    “People fall in and out of love, friendships fade, and relationships shift.” Love is the hard thing. I hate the “impermanent” part of it. I might have time for one more great love of my life. We’ll see.

    1. justrojie Avatar

      I hope you have that once again!! For me it’s hard to tease happiness and excitement apart but maybe I’m not supposed to?

  5. swamigalkodi Avatar

    Appreciated

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