Be Happy!

The latest popular trend that seems to be pushed to the public is the topic of happiness.  Bookshelves full of publications by happiness experts or those who claim to know how to do it.  How to be happy, what happiness should be…  it is all destined to sell well.

Because in the end, the number of people openly stating to be happy is significantly small.  Most of us just carry on regardless in everyday life, seeking the adrenaline or the endorphin depending on the situation to escape the dragging routines of a life they find themselves in.

So now there’s the new norm: be happy!  And if you are not a seeker of happiness, you are not part of the pack. Yet if you are just happy like everyone else, you are not creative, unique, or standing out from the masses. 

In this dual mindset, how on earth can anyone find themselves, let alone find happiness?

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Higgs

Hurray!  Finally, the Higgs boson has revealed itself!  This new energy quantum, indirectly observed but consistent with the theoretical predictions…  this missing link (where did I hear that before?), this great leap forward (!) for science. 

But this new phenomenon - hardly worth being called a thing – this new quantum then, more energy than particle in fact, was it really ‘un’covered as Heidegger would say? Was it there or did we see it because we wanted to see it, the latest figment of the human scientific mind?

What will be next on the theoretician’s whiteboard, I wonder.  It must be like facing the black hole. At least now I am assured that the universe won’t fall apart.  At this eve of Halloween, knowing this is somewhat comforting.

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