Embracing Emotions

My youngest daughter just loaded up her car and headed back to college. She’s a sophomore at KU, studying to be a teacher. As I watched her drive away, I was flooded with the gamut of emotions that I have felt while having her home for the past month. The primary and prevailing feeling is joy, and I am comically reminded of that movie Inside Out, where Joy is the character in charge of setting the emotional tone for the person they (the emotion characters) inhabit. The movie goes on to exploit our silly belief that we can ‘rush through’ or ‘pass over’ the feelings that are uncomfortable in an effort to remain happy above all else.

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