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Make Connections • Experts say that people feel only six main emotions— happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, disgust, and an- ger—and that all the other emotions we experience are some sort of combination or variation of these.

What I s Lone l i nes s?

• There are more than 600 words in the English language used to describe emotions. We use these words to give labels to differ- ent “shades” of the six main emotions. Because we have different words for all these shades of feeling, we can talk about many kinds of emotions. • We use 42 muscles in our faces to express emotions. We have learned to recognized others’ emotions, based on the expressions on their faces.

babysitter had the television turned up so loud she couldn’t hear his cries. Jack was feeling lonely and scared. And on the other side of town, Lisa’s friend Rick was walking down the street surrounded by a group of friends. Their voices were loud, and everyone was laughing—but Rick was thinking about his girlfriend Tracy. Tracy was an exchange student to Germany this semester, and Rick missed her. No one else really seemed to get him the way Tracy did. He had tried to tell his friends about a new band he had just heard, but they hadn’t understood why he was so excited. So even though he was in the middle of a group of friends, Rick was feeling lonely and misunderstood. FEELING ALONE Everyone feels lonely sometimes. Sometimes the feeling comes from being truly alone, but it has more to do with feeling alone, unconnected to other human beings. You could be all alone in