Tag: desire

Curiosity is an emotion we can access only when we are willing to admit that there are things that are worth knowing that we have no idea about.

Extraordinary places often come with their own extraordinary emotions. So it is with the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, the setting for what has become known as summit fever. The path… more emotion Summit Fever

I can still remember what it was like when the Windows 95 operating system came out. I was a Mac user at the time, but Apple was regarded back then as a pathetic… more emotion Tantalized

Sehnsucht is a yearning so singular that nothing else seems to matter, even to the point of self-destruction

A wistful feeling is a wispy thing, a delicately held contemplation of something with a note of desire, but no urgency.

Probably, that bunch of grapes would have been nice and tasty. Nonetheless, I respect the fox for finding a way to recover from its failure, to stay on its feet so that it can seek more attainable pleasures.

A literal trap is a device that lures an animal in, and then closes in around them, with something like a box, a rope, a net, or an unbreakable metal clamp. An animal… more emotion Trapped

The emotions of jealousy and envy both cast a hungry eye, but with different appetites. In 1993, social psychologists W. Gerrod Parrott and Richard H. Smith conducted a study into the perceived differences… more emotion Envy

Greed is perpetually grabbing at, and yet never truly grasping, what it hungers for.

I am currently living a year without a smartphone. At the end of 2018, I pledged that I would spend all of 2019 without using my iPhone, or any other digital device with… more emotion Temptation