I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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Posted on: April 11, 2008 3:56 AM, by Coturnix
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O dear- what happened to my short & cogent response? None of the fluff-ups
suggested by this site occurred...and the entire world would * really * love to know my
take on happiness, reason, and joy...eh?
Posted by: Keri Hulme | April 11, 2008 7:19 AM
Happiness & reason do not combine (I love Ursula Le Guin's works, am a writer. and respect
that she is a much more experienced person/writer than myself.)As soon as you are a reasoning person, you realise the world is full of pain - unwarranted, frequently unearned, and almost always undeserved pain. That's just the way it is (ask an oyster.)Reason has no part in happiness.
Joy - is another matter. I suspect that the tui and rirerire singing their hearts out in my backyard know waayyy more about joy than I - or you- ever will. Kia ora - Keri
Posted by: Keri Hulme | April 11, 2008 7:46 AM