emotion vocabulary Author: Yoo Kyung-kyung Publisher: Anne's Study Publication Date: June 5, 2022
It was an unfamiliar subject. emotion vocabulary. I hadn't read it, but I thought it wouldn't be a simple essay because the author had previously published a book called 'Adult Vocabulary'. You can read it if you're curious. Quietly thinking about myself, I remembered that in words I prided myself on being rational and reasonable. But, to be honest, it was close to self-deception. In fact, I felt like I was struggling with so many emotions every day. And maybe that feeling was suppressed in a drink after all.
Sometimes I eat at a place that combines a bookstore and a cafe. An open space surrounded by books is good, but it is also fun to read recommendations carefully written by book curators. So sometimes I buy a book or two, even if it wasn't a book I was very interested in. By chance, however, there I found an article by a book curator explaining emotional vocabulary.
‘Many people express their emotions in a wide range of situations. Then, another worry arises that it cannot be resolved. In this book, the author says that numerous problems such as psychology, communication, and relationships can be solved just by correctly recognizing the emotions I feel and expressing them with the correct vocabulary. I will introduce you to the various vocabulary needed to understand ambiguous emotions and help you use words appropriately for the situation.’
In fact, I bought the book and didn't read it for a while, and then I wondered if it would become a book I bought and didn't read. After reading the book curator's article, I made up my mind and opened the first page. As the artist said, emotions are neither good nor evil and are not subject to judgment. Pain is literally what happens when you don't face those feelings honestly. ignore it or suppress it. In other words, if you can at least distinguish and understand what your emotions are like honestly, your life can be richer.
The artist used the senses to distinguish and explain emotions. So, he created four categories: temperature, pain, touch, and light, and wrote words to find words suitable for each category. At the end of each category, he detailed the vocabulary related to emotions. Is there a vocabulary in our language that can express emotions in such detail and detail? I was surprised when I read the article. If you think about it differently, I didn't know all of the vocabularies properly, so I wondered if I had made the limit itself to express my feelings very narrow.
Should I say the author's warm encouragement? Suddenly, I remembered a phrase I had read in a book. ‘I despair because there is something I desperately hope for. The crisis of despair comes to anyone who has hope. It would be sad if unable to overcome that hurdle, he plunged headlong into resignation and decided to turn into an inanimate object and turn his heart into a lump of stone. What is needed at this moment is to give up the idea that 'blessing' is something that is automatically given from outside, and that I somehow persevere in blessing myself. The end has not come yet, so let's not throw away what we long for so much.'
What made me happy while reading the book were the many stories that I could relate to. Quotations from Brecht's 'Heartless Boy' and Romain Gehry's 'The Wall'. Nietzsche's words. It's a story about vocabulary, but on the other hand, it's also a great essay with deep content. In fact, I want you to read this book as if you were contemplating in a quiet place. If he walks along the path kindly guided by the artist, he will be able to think again about the feelings he feels and think of ways to care for them wisely. Also, I hope you feel the author's warm advice.