Categorising emos

I'm reflecting on how to organise my blog. Being an emotional person, I want you, the reader to be able to select blog posts based on emotions.

So I attempted emotional categorisation. I hopped onto Google expecting to find a nice simplified list somewhere of all the human emotions. Surely there couldn't be that many, once you remove all the repetition. Joy = happy, bewilderment = confusion etc.

Failure = incorrect! This is not a simple task!

My question was whether psychologists classify emotions into groups, kind of like 'primary colours'. I learned that yes they do... However, it depends who the psychologist is, as to how they do it!

Not only are there too many emotions to apply as categories, but simplifying them into categories seems way too arbitrary for me. According to Plutchick, for example, all emotions can be categorised into 7 basic emotions. If I use his categorisation as the basis of my blog, then everyday I will have to decide whether what I feel is a category of joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, or anticipation. Where does apathy fit in there? Or worry? I guess I would have to choose the basic emotion that I think is most similar, meaning that I would need to apply my own personal opinion to Plutchik's classification (surely different to his own), making the whole thing somewhat pointless. I may as well write a research paper myself with my own opinion on what the 'basic emotions' are (that is if they even exist).

The solution? I can't categorise my emotions, they are too complicated. I tag what I feel at the time with the first descriptive word that comes to mind.

Look right. This is my emotional storm cloud' (with some inspiration credit owing to my boyfriend PT). Isn't she a pretty little thunder cloud? Wonder if she'll fine up someday...

Maybe I'm struggling so much with this because I have low emotional intelligence, (lowest percentile).

Amazing where surfing the internet takes you.