Happiness Revisited 

"Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person."


1. When are you most happy?
I think I'm most happy when those around me are healthy, when my relationships with everyone around me are healthy, and when I'm accomplishing / have accomplished something.

2. In response to the article:
I think this is one of my favorite things we have read this year. I love love love phsycology/philosophy, and I think studies about happiness and when we feel fulfilled are really interesting. I can relate to the thoughts the article considers about an individual who achieves something or obtains something they wanted that they thought would make them happy, but then develops a whole new list of goal or desires. Maybe this isn't real happiness then, we just label it as that??

3. Where are you on the flow chart?
To be honest I really do not understand how the flow chart works... on principle I would say I'm somewhere in the middle, maybe a little closer to anxiety at the moment.

4. Throughout my project I've grown more anxious because my life has changed a lot - my cousin getting sick and dying - and it has affected almost everyone around me (well, my family) and this changes my happiness significantly. One big stress factor like this in my life makes me stressed out about other smaller things as well, possibly even more so than I would be feeling normally.

5. How can you achieve flow?
I think you can achieve flow by conciously deciding what seems to make you happy, and integrating whatever that is into as much as you can throughout every day of your life. Maintaining a good attitude and realizing that you'll always desire more and that this is not part of your happiness, that happiness should be something that stems off of a constant factor - love etc., will help one achieve flow.