Feeling Happy!
by Chloe - 15 May 2010
Why the exclamation mark in the title? Well, happiness feels weird. It doesn’t feel like a normal state of being. It takes some getting used to.
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by Chloe - 15 May 2010
Why the exclamation mark in the title? Well, happiness feels weird. It doesn’t feel like a normal state of being. It takes some getting used to.
Feeling Happy! continues »by Sean - 15 March 2009
Recently, Claire pointed out that "a lot of the writing on this site is particularly agonizing, Sean’s in particular". Yes, I know, my writing can be quite depressing. And I think it’s true that we all tend to write more when we’re troubled. It would be nice if we wrote more about happy things in our lives.
Writing Only When Things Are Bad continues »by Ada - 11 December 2008
The wheelchair box had been in my closet for two weeks. I had delayed opening the box because I needed to reconcile a few things in my head before I could open it.
Day One…. continues »by Sean - 30 September 2008
I am a reasonably intelligent man, even if I do say so myself. I can’t help thinking that things might be easier if I were stupid. And so, sometimes, I wish I were stupid.
Wish I Were Stupid continues »by Sean - 30 June 2008
Someone pointed me to a YouTube video that appeared recently. It seems to be an extract of an actual documentary, though it’s not one I’ve seen. It is interesting that Dr. Robert Smith is in there, doing a follow-up on one of the people he’s provided an amputation for. Or that is what it looks like anyway. In the short segment (~2 mins), the amputee is asked if he has any regrets, and he says that being an amputee is all that he’s ever wanted and he’s happy.
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