How do you make others feel? How do others make you feel?
How does this sign make you feel?
Actually, I feel like we (humans and, perhaps, pizzas) are all responsible for our own feelings. In other words, nobody can really “make” someone else feel anything. (Although we can make pizza.) Our feelings are our own — we can’t blame others for how we feel. However, people affect each other’s feelings, in many ways.
So, if you feel
- inadequate,
- sure,
- welcome,
- unwelcome,
- peaceful,
- good,
- coerced,
- threatened or any other feeling, ask yourself some questions.
Who might be affecting me? What am I feeling? Why? Do I wear those feelings well or are those feelings wearing me out? What can I do about this?
Yesterday, Tim
at the Apple Genius Bar
affected my feelings and my son’s feelings very positively. While Tim didn’t make me feel like a genius, he was a genius at his job. Naturally, I made my positive feelings known to Tim and to Tim’s manager.
Speaking of naturally, here‘s Aretha Franklin telling everybody how she feels in 2015:
Feel free to express any feelings you have in a comment, below.
As always, I feel very grateful to all who helped me create this post and — of course! — to YOU.
The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally 
You make me feel connected to your thoughts with words and photos every day, with great effects, Ann. Thank you.
Now I feel great, Mark. Thanks!
One of your best ever, Ann. And thank you for your restraint in not linking to that chestnut from the 70s. You know the one., Feelings. Best, Babsje
I feel like I know you better now, Babsje, and that’s the best!
You always make me feel welcome AND appreciated, Ann.
Now I feel wonderful, welcome, and appreciated, Ruth. Thank you!
This makes me feel young and happy!
Or, as the great poet Weird Al would say, “Sometimes you make me want to build a model of the Eiffel Tower out of Belgian Waffles.”
I feel you and Weird Al, Joanne! Many thanks.
The world needs more Tim geniuses!
I’m glad you’re spending time with Aaron. I have a feeling that you are, too.
I feel that the world needs more Maureen geniuses!
This weekend in the New York Times I read a collection of snippets of reviews of the movie Solo. Some were positive, some were negative, so they were under the headline “They Had Mixed Feelings About This”. The same section had a review of the new Laura Dern movie The Tale in which the critic admitted it made her so uncomfortable she resented her editor asking her to watch it.
It made me feel good to have critics admit that their reviews aren’t objective but are based largely on how they feel.
I positively don’t have mixed feelings about you, Chris.
I do understand that I’m responsible for my own feelings, but it’s so true that others affect my resilience in this area. And that’s a good lesson to me, in return, so that I’m better posed to encourage positive feelings in others. We are really quite powerful in this area, and I forget that sometimes, so thank you! Your compilation of scenic photos labeled “peaceful” are certainly that, and that’s a feeling I really try to cultivate. 🙂
You always encourage positive feelings here, Debra. ❤
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