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Open to Interpretation
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.” - John Stuart Mills
Miss Gretchen quoted this, in disagreement with it, providing three different ideas of what it really meant. Not having read it in context, I wasn’t sure myself. My first reaction to the quote is that the question is, well, a question. Questioning yourself stirs doubt. Doubt is far from the happy strain of emotions. Seemed like the question is a disruption of a zen state. “To Be.”
Then, I was astonished, that immediately after this closing, she opened her next chapter with the study of Buddhism.
Made me wonder, “Is ignorance bliss?”
Well, we all know that answer.
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happinesstrap posted this
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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.
