१६ मार्च, २०२२

10 years ago today I was happiness-blogging.

These are 15 consecutive posts put up on March 16, 2012:

1. "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."

2. "Happy people rarely correct their faults — they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways."

3. "Psychologist Martin Seligman provides the acronym PERMA to summarize Positive Psychology's correlational findings: humans seem happiest when they have...."

4. "The Happiness Bank." 

5. "Does Rick Santorum hate freedom and happiness?" (Things we don't have to worry about anymore!)

6. "I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.'"

7. "Romney's Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich's Religion of Grievance." (At least we don't have to worry about Gingrich anymore.)

8. "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness."

9. "A large Gallup poll has found that by almost any measure, people get happier as they get older..." 

10. "Happiness is more like knowledge than like belief." 

11. "5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't)." 

12. "'Santorum Promises Broad War on Porn.' Broad war?" 

13. "'I broke my theme. Something made me laugh.' And Meade says: "Then you didn't break your theme...." 

14. "I have told myself a hundred times that I would be happy if I were as stupid as my neighbor, and yet I would want no part of that kind of happiness." 

15. "And... that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."

६ टिप्पण्या:

rcocean म्हणाले...

Reading some of these is like stepping into a lost world. Sometimes 10 years ago, seems like 50. I was especially struck by "Romney wants us to be happy". That hasn't aged well.

Anyway, happiness is too high a goal. I'll settle for content.

Anne in Rockwall, TX म्हणाले...

I have always considered myself fortunate that happy is my default mode. I can never stay angry or sad for very long. Can't hold a grudge either.

Exactly like my father. Could it be genetic?

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Those were the good old days.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent म्हणाले...

That Obama. He was a mood-lifter!

Andrew म्हणाले...

I can't believe I'm the first to say this:

Happiness is a Warm Gun

TestTube म्हणाले...

Thank you for this post -- I am bookmarking it because, frankly, I could use a little discussion on happiness from time to time.

The Robert Louis Stevenson posting and the PERMA posting were especially of interest.