AN EMOTIONAL MENAGERIE by The School of Life

I bought the book “An emotional menagerie” from The School of Life and I was impressed by the number of emotions!!!
“Inside this book there’s twenty-six
Emotions you might feel.”

Obviously, when I was young nobody asked me how I felt. The only important things for my parents were grades and do not get in trouble. 
Even now days, if somebody would ask me to nominate the emotions I feel, it could be very difficult for me because I have a very limited emotional vocabulary.

I particularly liked DAYDREAMING because when my eldest son was young, he told me while I was nagging him to do things: “Mom, please leave. Now I want to dream.”

“D is for Daydreaming”

“If Daydreaming was an animal,
It would live in the trees,
Staring out at land and sky,
Forgetting what is sees.

It slouches in those moments when
We let our minds just wonder,
And lose track of the time as we
Invent, imagine, ponder.

We might say we are lost in thought;
Perhaps we’re miles away.
We’re letting idle fancies free
To wander where they may.

Some grown-ups don’t like Daydreaming;
They’d rather we were working.
They think it’s a distraction from
Important tasks we’re shirking.

But Daydreaming’s a kind of work:
It helps us clear our brains
So thoughts we’ve as yet just half-thought,
Can now make themselves plain.

Try to dream once a day
And see what comes to mind.
Perhaps write down the thoughts that come
And see what you can find.”

Editura: The School of Life, 2020