We’re coming up on the tenth annivarsary of Hurricane Katrina. I was only 12 when the hurricane hit, but I remember seeing articles online, and reading about it in school. Here are a few articles about Katrina, ten years later. 1, 2, 3, 4.
This week, Chris Guillebeau blogged about happiness as a superpower, and the idea that the ability to make yourself happy is important. Once you find that, you should hold on.
Finding happiness isn’t simple as stating the obvious: sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll—or whatever the short-term equivalent might be—won’t bring you happiness. Hopefully, most of us either know this intuitively or have figured it out without too much damage.
And it’s not as easy to find as some might say, for ultimately happiness is a combination of many things: current state of being, progress toward long-term goals, social environment, family history, and possibly other factors that are hard to identify.
But when you do find what makes you happy, when you finally gain that superpower—try to hold on to it. Try to do whatever it takes, every day, to keep happiness closer to you.
Also, I saw Guillebeau speak in 2013. It was so long ago!