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HOW TO MEASURE HAPPINESS?
By Sankirtana Dileep
secretly looking forward to going
“Are you happy?”
back to school. I giggle under my
A seemingly straightforward yet breath, mocking that weird kid in the
unanswerable question. A teenager corner and then mentally reprimand
might contemplate- I am happy to myself for being judgmental.
have made the basketball team, not It seems as if at the first indication
so much about the seven essays that of life getting too good or too bad, it
lie pending in my backpack. I reverts back to the middle.
occasionally flush with excitement “Regression to the mean”, they call
upon remembering the arrival of my it, a fancy phrase that basically tells
grandpa next weekend but mellow you, this is temporary, whatever
down knowing that it would „this‟ might be.
probably be his last visit. I am
disheartened knowing that our So am I happy? Yes, in the sense
summer break is cancelled but am that I am lucky enough to have
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