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Apr 9, 2025
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hi welcome back this is Kristin at learn
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English with be global and today we are
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going to talk about being happy and
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being sad there are so many different
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ways that we can express how we feel and
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our emotions in the English language so
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I just want to discuss several different
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ways that you can express yourself when
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you're happy or when you're sad so when
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you're happy you feel good you are
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really really happy about what's going
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on you want to smile you want to grin
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from ear to ear you can say I'm so happy
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that I got my new job I'm glad today
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that the Sun is out and it stopped
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raining knowing that they have their
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baby makes me smile it makes me smile
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and it feels good to know this good news
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that's great
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that makes me happy I'm excited or
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elated which means that you have a lot
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of energy inside of you because you're
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just bursting with happiness for
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whatever the situation is that makes you
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so happy I'm very pleased with the
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outcome of my term-paper please is more
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subdued it's a little bit more calm so
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when you say that you're pleased with
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something that means that you're happy
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with it but it doesn't it's not as
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strong as saying that you're excited or
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related and it's also kind of the same
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as glad so pleased and glad are very
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similar
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that's fantastic or I feel wonderful I
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feel fantastic I feel wonderful
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those are both ways to express happiness
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I'm delighted to hear about your friend
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I'm delighted with the news that I get
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to go on a worldwide trip delighted is a
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very simple happiness feeling ecstatic
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ecstatic could go right up here with
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excited or elated it means that you are
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bursting with energy on the inside
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because you are so happy about what's
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happening I'm the best I have ever been
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that really is saying a lot that means
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that in your whole life
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you are feeling the best you ever have
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which definitely means that you are
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happy I'm having the time of my life
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that means that you are in a period of
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your life right now where things are
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going so well you are so good you are so
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happy and so glad because everything is
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making you smile you are having the time
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of your life you can say I am having the
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time of my life or this is the time of
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my life seventh Heaven is another kind
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of flame saying that we use here I'm in
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seventh heaven and that means that you
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are in a place that you just didn't
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think you would ever be able to go to
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because you are so happy being there
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heaven on earth that means that you feel
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like you are in heaven but you're still
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here on earth that's how happy you are
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you are happy because you have found
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this heaven where everything is so
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amazing and so wonderful but you're
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still here on earth
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that's how wonderful you're feeling
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right now that's how happy you are
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walking on sunshine when you're really
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happy you feel like you can walk on air
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or walk on sunshine or even walk on
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clouds because you feel like you can do
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anything so this could be clouds it
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could be air I love even I haven't even
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heard some people say I could walk on
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water because they are that happy that
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they feel like they could just do
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anything because they're feeling so good
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about themselves and their life jumping
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for joy jumping for joy for me goes
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right back to excited or elated or
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ecstatic you have so much energy inside
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of you but you just want to get it out
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and you want to jump you want to jump
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with excitement because that's how happy
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you are so that's where jumping for joy
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comes in on top of the world have any of
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you ever been in a country or a city
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where they have a really high mountain
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top and you climb or you drive or you
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hike all the way up to the very very top
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of the mountain and usually want to get
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up there there is a viewpoint or a place
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where you can sit and look over
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everything and when you are sitting and
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you're seeing this entire city below you
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you feel so powerful you feel so amazing
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that there has been this creation of
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this city and this place that you can go
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where you can look at all of these
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things and it's such a great feeling if
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you haven't done it you have to find out
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where the highest place is in your city
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and go to it so that you know what I'm
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talking about so the same on top of the
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world
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is the idea that you are sitting on top
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of the world and just looking down on
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everything because that's how happy you
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are feeling right now you feel like
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you're on top of the world you are over
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the moon which is another another great
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example that is bigger than you that is
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bigger than life that you are truly over
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the moon beyond the universe that's how
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far your happiness goes so happy I could
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scream
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now this one's funny because usually
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when we use the word scream we're
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referring to being afraid and in this
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situation it goes back to ecstatic or
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jumping for joy or excited or related
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it's that energy that's inside of you
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that just has to come out and you are so
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happy and so excited that you could
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scream at the top of your lungs because
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you just don't know what else to do
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another example is having the time of my
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life that's just one of my favorite ones
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so I wanted to reiterate that one again
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whenever I am really happy that's the
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one that I like to say I'm having the
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time of my life things could not be
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better I could not be happier that is
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kind of a little bit of a backwards way
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to say it and I don't think I have that
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one up there so I'm gonna put it right
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here
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could not be
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happier
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and that's a way of saying I there's
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nothing that could happen right now that
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could make me any happier than I am
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today I am that happy so now we've gone
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through several examples in different
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ways for you to express how happy you
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are and I also wanted to throw in a
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slang word another word we use a lot in
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California is stoked
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I'm stoked for you that you got that job
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or I am so stoked to be going on
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vacation because I have been working so
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hard it kind of goes right with excited
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or ecstatic stoked is the same idea but
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it is slick so now that we've covered
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happy I guess we need to cover sad so
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expressing when you're sad that means
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you feel let down or you're disappointed
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in something because things just aren't
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going your way so let's talk about some
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different ways to talk about and express
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your feelings for sadness you can say
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I'm really sad or I'm upset I'm feeling
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down now notice we don't say I'm feeling
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up if we're happy so do keep that in
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mind but if we're sad we say I'm feeling
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down and that comes from I'm feeling
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down in the dumps
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or I'm depressed I'm heartbroken it
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means my heart is broken and there are
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also there are different ways of saying
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heartbroken there are some people that
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would say you know it breaks my heart
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that you're moving or I'm heartbroken
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that you're not going to be here anymore
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and they don't mean it in such a grand
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term and then sometimes you may truly be
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heartbroken you may actually feel that
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pain in your chest because you are that
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unhappy about something that's happening
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in your life so it can be used both
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lightly and it can be used for a heavy
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emotion I'm miserable miserable truly
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means that everything is wrong it can
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also mean that you're very sick that
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you're not feeling well that you are
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just miserable that there's nothing that
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can console you or make you feel better
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when you're miserable I'm unhappy that's
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an easy one to remember because you can
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say I'm happy I'm unhappy they go right
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together I feel out of it or I feel out
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of sorts this means that things just
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aren't quite right something in your
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life feels out of balance and maybe
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you're not even sure what it is you just
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know that you're not happy you're
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feeling sad and you feel out of it you
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don't feel like you're in your life and
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that things are working out the way that
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you want them to so you feel out of
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sorts you feel like you don't really fit
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in and it's a very uncomfortable feeling
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and it makes you feel very sad
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another slang word that we use a lot
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here in California especially is bummed
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I'm bummed that means I'm sad I'm
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disappointed that this happened if they
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might say it really bummed me out
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that you didn't call me when you said
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you were going to
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I got stood up and I'm bummed I'm bitter
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bitter is when you feel like something
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should have happened and it didn't and
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it makes you angry and unhappy and then
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that gives you a bitter feeling which
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can make you really sad because you feel
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like you've been wronged by somebody
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else
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blue blue is a color and it is also a
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way of expressing sadness you can say
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I'm blue today or I feel blue or you can
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say that somebody else looks blue she
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looks blue today if they're just feeling
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very sad and down and depressed one that
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I use regularly when I'm sad is my heart
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is hurting and that's my way of being
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able to have compassion for somebody
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else if a loved one has lost their
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parents or you know someone in their
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family or they've suffered a job loss or
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something is going on that they're
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really struggling with I may say to them
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my heart hurts for you my heart is
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hurting and that's my way of letting
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them know that I'm very sad for them and
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their situation and sometimes there's
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not anything that you can do for someone
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when they're going through a difficult
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time
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except for maybe just offer that you are
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sad for them to and that you are there
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to help them if they need it so that was
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what I would say my heart is hurting
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gloomy gloomy is a way to describe the
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weather and it is also a way to describe
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how we are feeling so it's almost like
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the weather in your head is cloudy and
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grey and sad so you are gloomy
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lo I'm feeling low definitely feeling
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low low is just a very simple word for
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sad somber is more of a feeling of just
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real unhappy disappointment when you're
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somber there's kind of this heavy
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depression that you feel and somber
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means it's very difficult to smile and
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it's a it's an emotion that we don't use
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very often but it certainly expresses
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feeling sad I'm all broken up or I am
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all torn up sometimes you may see things
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on the news we all know that the media
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covers so many things that are
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throughout happening throughout the
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world that are unfair or unjust things
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that we watch that we think why did that
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happen why did those murders happen why
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did those people get in trouble why did
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that person beat that other person and
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it just makes you feel very broken up
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and torn up inside because you don't
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know why and it makes you sad because
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you don't understand so this is a good
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term for you to use when you just don't
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understand why it's happening so you're
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just you're broken up about it you're
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torn up inside because it makes you sad
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and you don't understand worried sick
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worried sick is more about anxiety and a
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little bit less about sadness but it
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basically means that you are ill because
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you are worrying so much about this
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particular problem that is making you
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sad so let's say you have a child who
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left in the morning to go to school and
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you expected them to be back at 2
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o'clock in the afternoon
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they didn't show up you tried calling
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them they didn't answer their phone you
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try calling their friends their friends
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don't answer their phone at that point
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you become worried sick because you
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don't know where your child is that
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worried over not knowing where the child
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is literally makes you sick inside and
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that's what worried sick means hit rock
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bottom hit rock bottom is when things
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have gotten so bad there is nowhere to
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go but up because you have hit the very
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bottom of the pit just when you thought
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things could get worse it's not possible
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the very worst of the worst has happened
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you are in the worst possible State you
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could be in and you have hit rock bottom
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hit rock bottom and another one that we
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use often here is I'm a mess
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I'm a mess that means everything is
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messy in my life I can't control
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anything I am unhappy about everything
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I am mess so there's a list the smallest
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of ways to express sadness and I want
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you to notice I'm sure that you have
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already the difference in the tone of
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your voice when you're expressing happy
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things versus expressing sad things when
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you're saying happy things you tend to
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smile while you're talking and your tone
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goes up and when you're expressing sad
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things you lose that smile and the tone
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goes down and oftentimes gets quieter as
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well I also would like to stress that
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when you are talking about whether you
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are sad or you're happy
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the adverb or the additive adjective
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that's describing the word is usually
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stressed and you would say that louder
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so if you said I'm so happy so has the
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stress on it I'm really glad I'm really
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sad really would have that I feel so out
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of it I'm all broken up just to kind of
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give you an idea of how we say things
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like that and there are times when maybe
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you're feeling both of these things for
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instance I had a friend who got a great
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job offer and she was relocating to the
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other side of the face so it made me
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smile that she got this job and I was
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ecstatic where's my self I was ecstatic
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for her that she got a promotion and was
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going to have this wonderful job that
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she had dreamed of but it broke my heart
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whereas my broken heart here we go it
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broke my heart that she was going to be
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moving across the country so I was able
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to put both of those sometimes you're
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gonna feel both ways about things and
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sometimes maybe you don't have a feeling
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either way so then you can say I'm fine
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or alright
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or okay or even so so nothing you know
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I'm not happy and I'm not sad I'm in the
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middle
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or don't care
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I just wanted to make sure that you had
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a few things of those middle expressions
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as well because maybe you're not one way
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or the other life isn't always black and
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white there's a lot of gray so I hope
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that you have enjoyed this lesson I have
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enjoyed once again teaching you please
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