That moment, that feeling of relaxed contentment tinged with a splash of Schadenfreude, is my favorite Christmas moment. But not today, not two days before Christmas. The shop is normally full to overflowing with people meeting, working, drinking coffee, and chattering. Everyone's racing around trying to finish their last minute errands, which is why the place is empty in the first place. Someone pops in and orders a drink once in a while, but they leave again in a mad rush to finish their holiday shopping. No one is there, like they closed up early, but let me stay behind. Most of my client work is done, so I'm just noodling around on the computer, finishing some last minute projects and tweeting jokes about Christmas songs. 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows' has a whole list of them (and it keeps growing).My most favorite Christmastime moment, the thing I love to do most, is to sit in a coffee shop for a few hours a couple days before Christmas. There are tons more of emotions that most people don't know there are actual words for them. Seriously, this was one of the most interesting things I've read in a long time. You can feel this way even if you're not closely linked to the violence (like seeing things on the news or online). It happens after acts of violence takes place - like your mind and body just can't handle all the negativity. This is an exhausted feeling - both physically and mentally. Liberosis is that feeling, that desire to care less about things. It's a hypothetical conversation - like you asking your boss for a raise, and you keep playing it out, or a fight with a friend (and you're thinking, 'I should have said that'). This is definitely something I've done a million times, and I know you have too! Jouska is when you play a conversation over and over in your head, but it never happened. This video explains it really well (and really creatively, I might add). Recalling a memory now, then recalling that same memory five years from now can have a different effect on you (even though the memory is the same). Klexos is the art of dwelling on the past - and it really is art if you think about. Rubatosis is that hard-to-explain, unsettling feeling you get when you actually start noticing your own heart, and its own beats. The desire to be struck by disaster-to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall-which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other. Lachesism is a pretty unique one, and every time I think about it - it reminds me of the movie 'Fight Club.' According to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, Lachesism is: It's a small feeling, but somehow persistent. Monachopsis is that weird feeling that you're out of place. Now this is one we can all relate to at one point or another, in our lives. I never knew there was an actual word for it until today! 4 - Monachopsis Chrysalism is that relaxed, calm feeling you have when you're inside and it's storming outside. This is one of the ones I mentioned earlier.
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