tags: happiness
2001
January
- 2001 Jan 15
- Calm
Am I nothing but a clockwork orange? Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Calvin and Hobbes and the Myth of Sisyphus.
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2002
April
- 2002 Apr 19
- Jam Fac Id (Just Do It)
Letting go.
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2007
May
- 2007 May 11
- happiness, the continuing elusiveness of
Now I realize that happiness in of itself is a rather empty goal, reserved for victims of unusual strokes, the congenitally mentally incapacitated, and the clinically deranged. You lesion a few tracts in your brain, and you can be permanently happy until your dying day, singing “zippy-de-doo-da” out of your asshole, your face guaranteed to freeze with a rictus grin. I can see it now, a corpse grinning maniacally in his/here casket.
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2008
January
- 2008 Jan 26
- happiness is meant to be ephemeral
I decided a long time ago that asking if I was happy was a pointless exercise. You either are, or you aren't, and whatever the answer is, all you can count on is that things are bound to change.
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April
- 2008 Apr 16
- light chasing away the darkness
This song always makes me go a little teary-eyed.
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2012
July
- 2012 Jul 11
- the pursuit of happiness is in vain
I'm trying to figure out where this thought came from, trying to tease apart my memory to determine who taught this to me, or how I learned it. For as far as I can remember, I've taken it as a personal article of faith that you cannot really chase happiness. Maybe it's just an extrapolation of the conventional wisdom that you can't buy happiness. But happiness is not something acquirable, certainly not like you can obtain the newest iPhone, or even the acquiescence of corrupt politicians in certain regions of the world of ill-repute. You can't realistically set a goal like "in 3 months, I will be happy", certainly not the same way you can say "in 3 months, I will lose 20 pounds" or even "in 3 months, I will be married."
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2015
October
- 2015 Oct 6
- Rituals
I miss reading Barking Up the Wrong Tree. I used to read it a lot more when Google Reader was still alive. Now I'm lucky if a bunch of people share links from it to Facebook.
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December
- 2015 Dec 31
- The Pursuit of Meaning
On one hand, telling people to just "suck it up" and to simply endure unrelenting injustice while doing absolutely nothing to ameliorate conditions merely telegraphs your privilege.
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