127 / Is happiness what makes you happy?
In the paper today Adele Horin reports from the Happiness & It's Causes conference and quotes Hugh Mackay: "It is through sadness, failure, disappointment, grief and doubt that people grow, not happiness."
This notion ties in nicely with the book I've been reading lately, Bright Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich, 'how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America.'
"To the merchants of happiness," says Mackay, "who advocate that people repeat each night three positive things that had happened during the day, I say: Why?" Hmmm; read the article.
Comment by Jan
That's why it's good to attend the 'Happiness & It's Causes' conference as you get all kinds of thought and opinions on the subject of happiness.