...happiness is pastel

[logophile]

Thanks LadyJ and Carson. I love you both.
Aw hell, I love everyone! That's the nature of this beast.

 

[cantdog]

Inner fucking peace is different from happiness, and neither is pastel.

Happiness has usually been all around you for quite some time before you notice. If it never found you, you've been looking too hard.

Sneaky shit, happiness.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Inner fucking peace is different from happiness, and neither is pastel.

Happiness has usually been all around you for quite some time before you notice. If it never found you, you've been looking too hard.

Sneaky shit, happiness.

I love your wisdom.

Life is what happens when we're busy making other plans, yeah?

My inner peace is light blue. Edit: so is my bathroom.

 

[CharleyH]

ok fine. Fuschia (SP)

EDIT TO ADD: SOMEONE had to say it

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Happiness is acceleration.

The most intense emotions are accelerations from one state to another, just like in quantum physics. (Acceleration in the physics sense, meaning any change in velocity or direction, slowing down as well as speeding up.)

Just like electrons emit light when they fall from a higher energy state to a lower one, we emit happiness when we go from a lower state to a higher one.

That's why falling in love is so much more intense than being in love. It's the acceleration, see? And even happiness gets stale if nothing changes.

The most intense emotions, the ones we remember, are all accelerations.

 

[shereads]

Happiness doesn't get stale if you keep it moist.

 

[cantdog]

Inner fucking peace is different from happiness, and neither is pastel.

Happiness has been all around you for some time before you tip to it. If it never found you, you've been looking too hard.

Sneaky shit, happiness.

 

[rgraham666]

I don't understand this. Too intense for what? Aren't people supposed to have emotions anymore? To feel things? To care? And why does it matter to other people whether you're intense or not? Why do they think they're supposed to do anything about it?

Intensity rocks! I'd rather be vivid and shiny than bland and dull. I'd rather feel than be numb. I'd rather be expressive than keep it all locked inside.

Prozac anyone?

No, people are not supposed to have emotions anymore. Except for those allowed by State, Church and Corporation.

Anything else would derail The Gravy Train's Ride To The Sea.

 

[cantdog]

Happiness is acceleration.

The most intense emotions are accelerations from one state to another, just like in quantum physics. (Acceleration in the physics sense, meaning any change in velocity or direction, slowing down as well as speeding up.)

Just like electrons emit light when they fall from a higher energy state to a lower one, we emit happiness when we go from a lower state to a higher one.

That's why falling in love is so much more intense than being in love. It's the acceleration, see? And even happiness gets stale if nothing changes.

The most intense emotions, the ones we remember, are all accelerations.

And I love your wisdom, Zoot. There is much in what you say. Peak experiences are accelerations. Happiness is a state which supervenes when you attain a good place in your own evaluation of your life. It really depends only incidentally on peak experiences, what shereads calls transient or episodic happiness, the red red kind. To be happy is to introspect a bit, and suddenly recognize that life is pretty damn good, after all. It's by no means guaranteed. It sounds simple, but it doesn't happen to us all.

It has snuck up on you unawares, nearly every damn time.

People can be happy and appear, by objective standards, to be entitled to misery. But it's there, to the internal eye.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Happiness happens to me in moments, and enough moments make a lifetime... a moment of happiness is more than a lot of people get.

 

[cantdog]

Thanks LadyJ and Carson. I love you both.
Aw hell, I love everyone! That's the nature of this beast.

You just make the world better by being in it, logo.

 

[logophile]

You just make the world better by being in it, logo.

Your words mean more to me than I can say, Cant.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Just saw this LJ. Thanks

 

[Dar~]

they are right logo. Youare a perfect shade of lovely.

Happiness is extremes. Both Cant and Mab's posts speak volumes to me. Brilliant scholars how I emulate you.