先日、ロンドンのDesign MuseumでEMOTIONAL BAROMETERという商品を見つけた。
これは感情を説明するためのツールと説明されていて、中に20の気分を定義するカードが入っている。
うまく表現できない気持ちを、自分自身で認識するって大切だなと感じて、思わず買ってみた。
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It can be remarkably hard to tell other people how we really feel; it may even be tricky for us to get clear about our own moods. Mostly, if people ask how we are, we’ll just say, ‘Fine’ – knowing that we’ve provided only a sharp abbreviation of what is actually going on in our minds.
This is a tool to help us overcome our vagueness: cards that offer definitions of twenty moods that we can all recognise but that can be hard to pin down and explain. Here are descriptions of – among many other things – the sense of feeling weepy, nostalgic, anxious, and dreamy.
