Posts Tagged With: responsibility

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.