On me

In Irish when you talk 

about emotion, you don't

say, "I am sad". You'd say,

"Sadness is on me." -

Ta Bron Orm.

And I love that because

there's an implication of

not identifying yourself

with the emotion fully. I am

not sad, it's just that

sadness is on me for a 

while. Something else will

be on me another time, and 

that's a good thing to 

recognise.

~P.O. Tuama