Emerson!
HAPPINESS: A Class Definition
- the accomplishment of life-long goals and self-actualization
- endures through everything and anything
- being exceedingly content with your life as a whole, optimistic energy, although you might find unhappiness along the way
- feeling that you love and adore something despite its conditions
- temporary feeling (emotional happiness)–getting a glimpse of what the true eternal happiness might be
- state of being when you are always smiling, always try to make yourself the best version of yourself that you might be
- content, satisfied
- peace of mind
- universal–everyone can and will experience it at some point in their lives–varies per person
- experiencing purposeful stability and organization in all forms
- becoming one’s full self–no longer missing something
- temporary emotion–if you see yourself as eternally happy, you might just be subtracting the unhappy moments
- free from worries, focusing on what we have today
- what you make of what you have
- basic appreciation for life in its simplest form
- “happiness starts with a smile”
- created from unhappiness–like a coin, has both sides
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Aristotle (384-322BC)
“The modern reader of Aristotle has a greater challenge: before he can attempt to understand and assess Aristotle’s views–or rather, in the very course of his attempt–he must reconstruct them; he must, that is, endeavour to hear Aristotle’s lecture notes; and he must exercise his sympathy and his imagination to expand Aristotle’s concise arguments and to illustrate Aristotle’s bare abstractions.” (Jonathan Barnes)
