Alone with Everyone
Other Possible Titles for todays entry: Daze Off Happy Daze Blown by the River Lost in Time Someone asked me sweetly last week about posting a new journal entry. It's been more than a month I was astonishingly informed. My reply to them was that my life has been so overwhelmingly joyous that to write it down makes it feel so small! "Smiling tricks your brain into thinking it is happy," he implied. "Happiness is an emotional state, a feeling. Feelings are fleeting. No one is truly ever happy." & all I did was ask, "why did you get your wife a gift for Father’s Day?" I used to be a throw, without seams, a silk cocoon of happy dreams. Now I'm a quilt, no square the same, a patchwork of agony & distress. Ernest Hemingway once said, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” What did he mean by this, that smart people are mostly miserable? Well research has indicated that by not over-thinking, the less intelligent handle emoti...