Slow Days

Feeling eager

Keen and ready for something that’s coming.

Watercolor of an open kitchen window with sheer curtains lifting in the breeze, a jug of wildflowers on the sunlit sill and a wooden table below.

Where it sits on the wheel

Eager is in the outer ring, under Joyful › Hopeful.

Open it on the full wheel

A gentle prompt

What are you looking forward to? Which part are you most eager for?

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Something to go with it

Nothing To Do

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Feelings near eager

  • Hopeful (one ring in)

    Eager is hope with something definite on its way, and wanting it to arrive.

  • Optimistic (also under Hopeful)

    Optimistic is a belief about how things will go; eager is keenness for something that’s coming.

  • Inspired (also under Hopeful)

    Eager waits for something to arrive; inspired wants to start something itself.

About the feelings wheel

Eager is one of the 104 words on the Slow Days feelings wheel, and the list of feelings has them all. The wheel isn’t a test or a diagnosis.