Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Happy Pills

I’m really fried, but in a good way.

Life is just really full — and with things I love to do, so I’m not complaining.
I’m preaching on happiness in December and as I was taking my shower tonight I hit on my own personal definition of happiness:

Happiness means never having the thought, “Why am I doing this with my life? Why did I make this choice? If I had this all to do over again, I would have chosen so differently.”

That’s the heart of Eudaimonic happiness, a concept that interests me very much. Eudaimonic happiness isn’t about pleasure or “up” feelings, it is about doing what you feel you were meant to do, and being who you were meant to be.

It’s the only definition of happiness that has ever made sense to me, and having discovered it makes me very, well… happy!

So, angsty people who feel misunderstood by loved ones who frequently question your intensity and exhort you to just “be happy, already,” tell them what yanna.lyana told you: you are happy, it’s just a different kind of happiness than the one they would have you seek.


Elle and her Clinique Happy is inseparable (?) ha-ha

2 comments:

Anita, Mummy Adzryl said...

hahaha. btol2.. Elle & her Clinique Happy are inseparable! SANGAT!! dari dulu sampai skang ehh dia pakai tuhh? hihihi.. whenever i walked thru the Clinique counter at the malls, sure i teringat Elle!!

ohh kem salam to Elle plzzz! bila nak get together ramai nih.. with Adeq, Elle, etc??

p.s. I tgh cari keje normal hours.. ur comp ada vacancy tak?? mau mauuu.. :D

yanna.lyana said...

hehe..i dah fwd ur cv kat my manager.nything i'll update you aite!