Happiness – Hedonistic or Eudaimonic?

Yesterday my Residence Sides team created team t-shirts by using stencils and spray paint to create a word that represented our year. Naturally, my indecisive self couldn't think on the spot, so I ended up searching my phone for a half hour to find the perfect word. And then I discovered eudaimonia.  Translated from Greek to mean 'welfare' or 'happiness',...

Firsts of Many: Musings and Happy Days

I was asked the other day how I've changed since high school. I responded, "I'm a lot less bubbly…less naive… and overall, just more critical in the way that I perceive and understand the world." But an unfortunate corollary to this which I didn't say at the time was, I'm less optimistic, less cheerful, and...