Someone on Quora posted the question: *what are the best and worst feelings in the world?* Here were some of the replies.
**Best feeling:** Lying on your back with a baby on your chest. Around 6 weeks of age when they look at you and SMILE. And it’s YOU. When your child says something wonderful. Could be little or big. My older son once said to me: “Dad?” “Yeah?” “I’m lucky you’re my parents” and I said “Thank you. I’m lucky you’re my child” My yonger son once said to his mom: “Mommy, I love you. And I’ll always love you. And even when I get mad and say I hate you, I still love you”. **Worst feeling:** Losing a child. We were at the end stages of the process of adopting a newborn baby. Then plans fell through. Watching a child of yours die must be even worse. *- Peter Flom*
**Best feeling:** The photo above. **Worst feeling:** Eight years later, when she said “I don’t want to do this any more. I love him. I want a divorce.” – *Geoffrey Walton*
**Best feeling:** Knowing that exams would end tomorrow **Worst feeling:** Knowing that exams would start tomorrow – *Kevin Sn*
**Best Feeling:** Waking up early on a Saturday, realizing that two full days of opportunity are ahead. So many things to be learnt, so many things to be experienced and so many people to be met. **Worst Feeling:** Realizing it is sunday night already. Two full days of opportunity went unutilized. You did not learn anything new, did not experience anything new and did not meet anyone. – *Bhuvnish Mittal*
**Best feeling:** To see the person you love smiling and knowing that you are the reason behind it. **Worst feeling:** Pretending that you don’t care about something, when really it’s all you think about. – *Harshal Choudhary*
**Best feeling:** When you love someone with all your heart and they love you back the same way. **Worst feeling:** When you both know you will have to leave each other and you can’t do anything about it. – *Ritija Monali*
**Best feeling:** When you child is born, and you hold him or her in your hands. **Worst feeling:** If your child dies, and you are still alive. – *Raghu Venkataraman*
**Best Feeling:** Returning home after a trip and taking a deep inhale of that familiar smell. **Worst Feeling:** Knowing you just screwed up REALLY bad, but that there’s nothing you can do to fix it. – *Aubrey Sterling*
**Best feeling:** As a kid you know your parents are always there to pick you up if you fall down. **Worst feeling:** As a grown up, you want to take care of your old parents, but life just makes you drift away from them, a little at a time, every day. – *Aryadeep Chakraborty*
**Best feeling:** But… I love you. **Worst feeling:** I love you.. but – *Anonymous*
**Best feeling:** Every time my daughter tells me she loves me. **Worst feeling:** If I lost her. I cannot fathom what a parent does in that situation. It hurts me to even think of it. – *Nick Aschberger*
**Best feeling:** Waking up in the middle of the night and realizing that you still have much time to sleep. **Worst feeling:** Ringing Alarm clock!!! – *Anonymous*
**Best feeling:** I am a GROWN UP!!! Wow!!! **Worst feeling:** I am A grown up!!! – *UmaPrakash Radhakrishnan*