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 Pick an emotion to lose (10)

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Pick an emotion to lose

A powerful spirit appears before you and tells you that it will completely erase your ability to feel one emotion. It will do this one way or the other, however, you may choose which emotion to get rid of. So what emotion would you choose, and why?

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2 points

If we could say hope is an emotion, then I'd lose that one in a heartbeat.

Hope is like gambling with the rest of your emotions.

Envy, I would say. Most other 'negative' emotions hold important functions, but I can't help but think that envy was only functional at a much earlier time in our social development (referring to developed countries; envy may still be practical for enhancing survival in the third world).

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I am not sure if this is actually a word or not, but lethargism! It's more of a feeling, but can still be considered an emotion! My life could be much better off without it!

shoutoutloud(4303) Clarified
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According to the dictionary, feelings and emotions have the exact same defintion. Although a feeling can also be a sense of touch.

And you can also find the word you didn't know what a word here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lethargism

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I couldn't care less...so I guess apathy.

Is impatience an emotion? If so, I think that would have been a good one to lose.

But I see how unable to be impatient can be unpractical.

Confusion is also a not so pleasant emotion. and at first I wanted to say pride - but when I say pride, I mean .. I'd like to not feel better than someone else. I don't want to not be able to feel proud of my daughter, for instanse.

Is impatience an emotion?

I'm not sure. Honestly, I think virtually every answer provided so far could be debatable. But all of them are interesting answers and none of them are definitively NOT emotions as far as I can tell.

That said, I might class impatience as a behavior rather than an emotion, but I'm not disputing your usage.

But I see how unable to be impatient can be unpractical.

Indeed.

That's part of this challenge. Most or all of our emotions are valuable and helpful at the right place and time.

Confusion

I'll allow confusion, but are you sure that is an emotion and not a cognitive failure?

Either way, I'd love to toss it aside. Failure to understand the world around me stresses me out more than it probably should.

and at first I wanted to say pride - but when I say pride, I mean .. I'd like to not feel better than someone else. I don't want to not be able to feel proud of my daughter, for instanse.

Hmm. Too me, those things almost different enough that it seems strange that English uses the same word to describe them. But I totally get what you are saying.

shoutoutloud(4303) Clarified
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Danish uses the same word for both feeling proud of yourself and others. But feeling like you're better than everybody else can be described as arrogance, but that is more of a personality, rather than an emotion.

Anger.

Wouldn't the world be better if everyone had large smiles on their faces and laughed constantly? >:D

Aversion.