There’s a happiness factor at play when choosing to do things, and investing time in a particular activity. I think the reason doesn’t always have to be because it needs to be done and because that’s what I should do, the reason can also be because it brings me happiness. That’s what I mean by the happiness factor.
This is a different approach from the rigid and fixed way of looking only at the it-just-needs-to-be-done factor.
In fact, sometimes the happiness factor is the main reason for the fact that it needs to be done, but it’s overlooked.
When Albert Camus was asked why he loved theater so much, he simply replied that it made him happy.
Sometimes the most basic reasons are neglected, and things like success are at the top of the factors list. The happiness factor is a human factor, it’s a pleasure factor, it’s a feel-good factor. It’s not logical or reasonable or profitable or external.
The happiness in the happiness factor is instrinsic happiness, it’s the pure and simple joy of doing. It’s not the external happiness that comes with praise and followers and success.
I’m talking about the basic everyday joy that is not shiny or glamourous, but simple and pure, and a little boring, but also the real reason I choose to keep doing something. When I think about the happiness factor, it’s easier to do things, because I don’t think of them as « shoulds », but rather as fulfilling and joy inducing things.
I believe this is a more tender approach that is full of life and humanness and gentleness. Doing something for the joy it brings.
When Albert Camus was asked why he loved theater so much, he simply replied that it made him happy.
Sometimes the most basic reasons are neglected, and things like success are at the top of the factors list. The happiness factor is a human factor, it’s a pleasure factor, it’s a feel-good factor. It’s not logical or reasonable or profitable or external.
The happiness in the happiness factor is instrinsic happiness, it’s the pure and simple joy of doing. It’s not the external happiness that comes with praise and followers and success.
I’m talking about the basic everyday joy that is not shiny or glamourous, but simple and pure, and a little boring, but also the real reason I choose to keep doing something. When I think about the happiness factor, it’s easier to do things, because I don’t think of them as « shoulds », but rather as fulfilling and joy inducing things.
I believe this is a more tender approach that is full of life and humanness and gentleness. Doing something for the joy it brings.
Zaïnab 