The happiness of creative work.
October 19, 2024
There's some truth about the present. How it's the key to happiness. What good is the memory of joy? Or tomorrow's expectation of pleasure? What you hope for is as stale as yesterday's champagne.
It might happen NOW if it's going to happen at all. But the present - only a razor blade between past and future - doesn't always feel that great.
Superficial types imagine that happiness must be a state of inertia. Laying flat on your back and satisfied. But this is too much like an image of death. And happiness is anything but dead.
The highest kind of happiness is the act of creating. When thoughts of happiness no longer haunt a person. Thinking of happiness is a way of being unhappy. Pure creativity is happiness itself.