Happiness

I’m really fried, but in a good way.
Life is just really full — and with things I love to do, so I’m not complaining.
I’m preaching on happiness in December and as I was walking into the theater for rehearsal tonight I hit on my own personal definition of happiness:
Happiness means never having the thought, “Why am I doing this with my life? Why did I make this choice? If I had this all to do over again, I would have chosen so differently.”
That’s the heart of eudaimonic happiness, a concept that interests me very much.
Eudaimonic happiness isn’t about pleasure or “up” feelings, it is about doing what you feel you were meant to do, and being who you were meant to be.
It’s the only definition of happiness that has ever made sense to me, and having discovered it makes me very, well… happy!
I’ve spent way too […]