9.28.2004
Psychologically speaking, when we experience challenges, anxiety, stress, difficulty, and so on - we are actually experiencing happiness. Doesn't this make complete sense? It's within those moments that we are testing our every dimension of humanity, when we learn the most about ourselves and grow, and when we are best able to theorize about the world and our communities. In the moment, we feel as if we're achieving very little. Similar to a runner's high, at the end of our challenge we feel as if we're on top of the world. Easy is unfeeling and boring. Having no responsibilities, ethics, or duties - even passions - is not happiness, rather emptiness.
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