Post by Darren Dirt on Apr 19, 2007 11:11:23 GMT -5
...if it's not done right 
www.newint.org/columns/essays/2006/07/01/happiness-conspiracy/
Some Deep Thoughts in this article.
Health professionals face new epidemics of 'hurry sickness', 'toxic success syndrome', the 'frantic family', the 'over-commercialized child' and 'pleonexia' or out-of-control greed. Too much is no longer enough. Many are stretching themselves so far that they have difficulty feeling anything at all. At its heart the happiness boom is a metaphor for the modern struggle for meaning.
...we're the least happy society in history if we measure happiness in terms of mental health, personal growth, or general sense of aliveness.
The head of a US aid agency in Kenya commented recently that volunteers are predictably dumbstruck and confused by the zest and jubilance of the Africans. It's become a cliché for them to say: 'The people are so poor, they have nothing -- and yet they have so much joy and seem so happy.'
...There is an exquisite line by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche which touches on one of the keys to happiness: the need to appreciate 'the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a moment'. Paradoxically, happiness is closer when we kneel than when we soar. Our own nothingness can be a great source of joy.
www.newint.org/columns/essays/2006/07/01/happiness-conspiracy/
Some Deep Thoughts in this article.
Health professionals face new epidemics of 'hurry sickness', 'toxic success syndrome', the 'frantic family', the 'over-commercialized child' and 'pleonexia' or out-of-control greed. Too much is no longer enough. Many are stretching themselves so far that they have difficulty feeling anything at all. At its heart the happiness boom is a metaphor for the modern struggle for meaning.
...we're the least happy society in history if we measure happiness in terms of mental health, personal growth, or general sense of aliveness.
The head of a US aid agency in Kenya commented recently that volunteers are predictably dumbstruck and confused by the zest and jubilance of the Africans. It's become a cliché for them to say: 'The people are so poor, they have nothing -- and yet they have so much joy and seem so happy.'
...There is an exquisite line by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche which touches on one of the keys to happiness: the need to appreciate 'the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a moment'. Paradoxically, happiness is closer when we kneel than when we soar. Our own nothingness can be a great source of joy.