Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
image: mahesh khanna
Wow. It’s official, everybody is an expert on happiness… or at least so it seems.
When I started this blog my objective was to generate a buzz about my project, The Mechanics of Happiness - How to Engineer a Positive Approach To Your Life, which is a series of six books addressing different aspects of our lives. Someone told me, it’s what you do if you want to make a splash, blogging - it’s web 2.0, so I did it.
The results have been somewhat piecemeal but it’s become something I enjoy doing, dare I say it’s something I find fulfilling and now a component of my own personal happiness.
I have, for many years, worked with people in the area of personal development and have become accustomed to some quite gritty exchanges. It is the way if you are in the business of dealing with some of the ogres that lurk in people’s, including my own of course, shadowier parts. So I thought it would be the case with this old interface with the world, yet it hasn’t quite worked out that way so far.
It seems that there is a huge buffet, if you Google ‘happiness blogs’, where everyone adds to the table of plenty and I can’t help but wonder if so much expertise exists why there is such an intrinsic malcontentment abroad. Is this a case of the emperor’s new clothes? Is happiness to the naughties what peace and love was to the sixties?
Don’t be shy, speak to me, I’d like to hear what you have to say.
PS The title is a classic by the Buzzcocks