„Trying for a week!”

Lorenmart - PONTEVEDRA, ISLA DE AROSA

You might read from time to time articles like these „I’ve been trying food X for a whole week! Here are the results!”. Or, „I’ve been using this phone for two weeks. Here’s my feedback!”. Or, „I’ve changed my lifestyle into X for a month, here’s how I feel”. I won’t list any real examples, but they’re plenty to choose from.

The thing is, even if one / two weeks or even one month is not enough, in my opinion, to form a solid opinion.

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All the world’s emotions – within me

Shlomi Kramer - eMotion

One famous quotation by Terence (in his play Heauton Timorumenos) reads:

I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.

I think that’s true, that a person can have all the states, happiness, fury, envy, disgust, laughter, excitement, annoyance, and so on.

There’s one emotion, though, which is a bit more special – the innocence face-to-face with cynism.

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Pleasure

Christian Kortum - Summer Pleasures

There’s an odd thing about pleasure – it changes as things happen.

If I want to watch a movie, I have a lot of pleasure finding out about the movie, I write it down, I’m excited. Then, as time passes by and I watch the movie, the pleasure decreases.

If I’m thinking about chocolate there’s a lot more pleasure before the process than in the process itself.

If I want to meet someone, I’m happy before the meeting, and partially happy during the meeting, but, at times, less happy. Do I wish to see a dear person again? Sure. I meet him/her, and I ignore him/her.

Preparing for a run is not the same as doing the run itself.

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