HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!????????????$$$$$$$$$$$

Don't get mad at me.

But when I read this:

"Happiness is something so personal,Yet influenced by others.When happiness is shared,It seems to multiply.Contagious like the flu,But also only last for twenty-four hours at times.As most thing in life,Happiness must also have an opposite to balance itself.My only wish for you,Is that you spend more time with happiness!To go through life happy is wise,Yet, not to pursue this most important possession, is unfortunate.Within your entire existence, peacefulness should thrive;After all, truly, what else is more righteous?"

I get a bit miffed.

According to the above quote, is this happiness?

They look happy to me! Yet, they will probably die by 50.

How would you define happiness. The above quote from the "eldest", who does not wish to identify himself/herself directly, is "fuzzy". Happiness has no physical attributes. As Charlie Brown and his friends well knew, happiness is two kinds of ice cream, finding a pencil, having a sister, anything and anyone that's loved by you.

The word "happiness" does not get us too far. Too often when we talk today we rely on overly broad, categorical and static words like fear and happiness to describe, diagnose, predict and expound words that don't get us very far as family, friends, lovers and co-workers. This explains why, though we all say that we are happy, the library of how-to-get-happy books and why-we're-not-so-happy books is expanding.

So, let us on our blog agree to a moratorium on the use of single words, such as fear, anger, joy, happy, said, and write about emotional processes with full sentences rather than ambiguuous and naked concepts that burden us with the task of deciding who, whom, why and especially what is happiness. A more direct approach of talking would be welcome!