đź“š on happiness
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đź“š on happiness
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
– Oscar Wilde
Thank Goodness - song and lyrics by Ariana Grande - Spotify
open.spotify.comthat’s why i couldn’t be happier
no, i couldn’t be happier
though it is, i admit,
the tiniest bit
unlike i anticipated.
but i couldn’t be happier,
simply couldn’t be happier.
well, not simply.
cos getting your dreams,
it’s strange but it seems
a little, well, complicated.
there’s a kind of a sort of cost
there’s a couple of things get lost
there are bridges you cross
you don’t know you’d cross until you’ve crossed.
and if that joy, that thrill,
doesn’t thrill like you think it will,
still, with this perfect finale,
the cheers and the bally-hoo,
who wouldn’t be happier?
so, i couldn’t be happier
because happy is what happens
when all your dreams come true.
well, isn’t it?
happy is what happens
when your dreams come true.
on decoupling happiness
the real work of a break up isn’t making the decision to let them go, but decoupling your happiness from theirs.
for so long you exist in a state where your happiness is contingent on the other; your decisions and so many life factors. but then you’re a lone bird and you have to find what makes you happy.
and not let their
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– Voltaire
joy vs happiness
Joy is transient. It exists in moments and in the interaction between things. It can’t be contained or sustained, really. But it can be constrained, we can choose not allow it in.
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comment on Carissa Potter’s substack
Happiness is continuing to desire what you already have.
a working definition of happiness