About seven months ago, one of my favorite YouTube creators, Hank Green, made a video entitled “15 of my Favorite Feelings.” It’s such a simple, beautiful idea that other YouTube creators followed suit and listed their favorite feelings too. If you’re bored in any way, I’d recommend you take a browse: it’s refreshing to see such positive thinking in any kind of media.

Unfortunately, we don’t stop to think about the things that make us grateful or make us feel good every single day. I think everyone should keep a gratitude journal – looking back on what you were thankful for over a year is pretty cool. But we never stop to think about feelings we like specifically, and I think that’s because we are so complex that de-tangling feelings and why and how we feel those ways is way more complicated than it sounds.

I write all of this because I have found even thinking of 10 favorite feelings extremely difficult but it’s something I definitely recommend if you have time for it. So, without further ado, here are my 10 favorite bookish feelings.