Big Sad Overtones

An emotion with connections to the past.

Surrealism by DALLE 3.

Today’s emotion is Hüzün. It’s similar to énouement but not quite, it has sad overtones. Where énouement was looking back over the past wishing that I knew then what I know now, this emotion has more of just wishing for the past. This emotion is about how short life and beauty are, and that can make one a little sad. It’s less “I wish I had done x” and more “I wish…