It is an unsettling feeling, also a feeling of
ungratefulness. Like the authors I feel my life is good, I have everything I
could ask for. Great friends, great family, extremely wonderful boyfriend, and
all the comforts I need, I am studying what I love, and there is nothing more I
can think to ask for. And yet somehow I don’t fully feel complete. What I found
puzzling was that I feel happy, and yet not happy. It like I am happy, but not
the level I want.
Before I
read this chapter, I felt isolated in my feeling, and never thought to talk
about it. Even though I generally feel free to talk to my loved ones just about
anything. Some how I felt selfish wanting to be happier, and scared to consider
I might always want just a little more.
After reading that the author felt what I felt,, and acknowledge my
feeling, was a bit overwhelming.
So I have
decided to make my own happiness project. My project is very simple. Once a
week I will do one thing that I have wanted to do, but always found reasons not
to. So today I went for a bike ride with my friend from dt to IV and back, it took us 2 and half hour but I felt great.
For next week I am not sure what I plan to do, but whatever come up I am going
to do it. I am not sure what I am going to feel in a couple of weeks, or a
couple of months, but I am exited to see.
The other
two readings were fun and inspiring as well. I loved the article about how to
just get started with writing, and it was motivating, because today I am going
to get my journal, and finally start journaling
Hey girlfriend :) nice to have you in a class for once. I just wanted to comment on your thoughts about happiness and self-fulfilment. Although conformity is a path that people have been comfortable with traveling on for so long, our generation seems to be doing a good job of reforming this way of living. Young adults are becoming excellent entrepreneurs, and are good at selling themselves. Although in Santa Barbara I feel surrounded by these types of people, but in reality, only a small number of us are given the opportunity to do great things and pursue true happiness. Furthermore, even those of us given the opportunity to go to college and get a degree I feel are too young to commit to a career that we will potentially be stuck with for life. I have a ton of friends back home who got a degree (in business, marketing, engineering, etc.) who aren't even in their thirties but are miserable with their career. Meanwhile, they can't pursue anything else because they need to keep working in order to pay off all the student loans they accrued in school. It seems like a vicious cycle.
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