RE: The Quantum State of Sadness [ITA/ENG] - May 2, 2025
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I was thinking recently. It's so easy to communicte when it comes to material realm. Please, pass me the salt. I don't like the blue carpet. Where can I find nearest cinema? But we start to lose to completly when it comes to our inner world. It's such a mess. How many people take time and effort to sort, define and nuance it? Cultural narratives? Even worse. Happiness is so often seen as "good chemical feeling" by the pop culture. Sadness is almost forbidden and feared, so easile connected conceptually with depression. These are so much different qualities.
What's your definition of happiness? Does it encompass sadness or are these mutually exclusive?
I really like your conclusion here though, whatever it is, observe and feel is a way to go.
Hi deep, my definition of happiness? What a complex question. Too many moons have passed since my youth to answer hedonistically. My happiness is in the little things, a clean kitchen, a cup of good coffee, my children sleeping peacefully, a trip to an unknown place, rock music in my ears while I clean and dance, a book from which I learn something I didn't know, the homeless man who smiled at me this morning when I brought him two shirts that my husband would no longer use, an exchange of ideas with a person I don't know, like in this moment. I think happiness is hidden in the folds of small gestures of love. It's just that often they are not enough for us.