March 2011
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The Pursuit of Happiness is Hazardous to Your Health
“Everyone just wants to be happy, but psychologists at the University of Wisconsin found that people who search out happiness for its own sake tend to live shorter lives and are at greater risk to develop depression and other mental illnesses. Yes, the pursuit of happiness can lead to unhappiness.”
This reader comment pretty much sums up my current perspective on career, work and adulthood in general:
“We’re not hamsters on a wheel. We built the wheel and then got into it and made ourselves into hamsters. “
Finally
Finally, after all these winter months and with spring a little more than a week away, the northern hemisphere jetstream is forming a winter-like pattern, placing a beeline course for storms to come out of the Western Pacific and travel unabated across the 35-40° latitudes (SoCal is around 33°).
This sets up an ideal NW swell scenario, as storms will finally have a chance to build as they progress out of the Western Pacific and throw more direct swell our way, yet stay just far enough north of our area to keep rain and brutal winds away from SoCal (operative word here being brutal, as some onshore-ness will occur).
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TV on the Radio — Will Do
Dallas Clayton: PASSION →
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PASSION
As a teenager
It is important to shake your fist at the gods
to run as far and as fast as you can into the dark
get lost, pass out, and wake up the next day
with a volume of new and troubling goals
and no plan whatsoever to help you achieve them.
As an adult
it is important to look back at how hard your fist shook
and how those gods still forgave you,
because they had been there too,
running and passing out,
and now that it is all here upon you
plan or no plan
those goals don’t seem nearly as troubling.
