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Happiness is Brief…
And it will come back. Holding onto it, well, you know the saying “if you love someone…”
So this is excerpted from an email exchange I had moments ago.
“Well, that’s my point, really. You don’t STAY happy. Oh, whoopie! My dog just got run over by a car. Let me grab my party hat and clean him up off the street. You can still be happy thinking of the times you had, but if you’re ‘happy’ something is wrong with you. Also, we clearly are missing the mark on how we use the word ‘happy.’ It’s unfair to use that word for what people are selling.
The thing about Abraham is that no matter WHAT happens, it’s your fault. So you psyche yourself up in the morning for a prosperous day and then you get in a car accident that’s going to cost you and they point to your thoughts as though you clearly aren’t doing it right. That only makes you MORE miserable. That’s like practicing perfectly for a concert every day for months and then at the recital you hit a sour note every three measures. What would you think of yourself? Loser.”- Amy
A frustrated victim of motivational speakers, Arena begins her look at the happiness industry with us while reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She will take us back to a Millionaire Mind Seminar where her quest to live her dreams brought her to a standstill with debt, legal trouble, and living in her worst nightmare - geographically, even.
Amy Arena holds a B.A. in American Studies from San Francisco State University. A respected actress and world-renown singer (at least underground) , Arena has written several peer-appreciated, but not-yet-produced plays, has published poetry and won awards for her short stories on websites that no longer exist, and produced an album that she can't afford to hype with the finesse of the happiness experts.
