Between the Bars: Comments on 'The Pursuit of Happiness'https://betweenthebars.org/posts/commentfeed/255272018-01-27T00:03:38ZComment2018-01-27T00:03:38ZEdwin J. Hutchison/people/show/1557tag:betweenthebars.org,2018-01-27:/posts/25527/the-pursuit-of-happiness/comments
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<a href='/people/show/1557'>Edwin J. Hutchison</a>
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Comment2017-12-30T01:01:41ZAlestra/people/show/17410tag:betweenthebars.org,2017-12-30:/posts/25527/the-pursuit-of-happiness/comments
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Greetings Zakee! Indeed, I find your writings inspirational. I hope to develop a style of my own that is similarly transparent and self-reflective. I was scheduled to read for the first time at open mic but alas, illness kept me quarantined. <br /><br />I find the pursuit of happiness overrated. What I seek to live is a life of purpose and meaning. I’ll share with you a quote from Annie Dillard that I took the liberty to modify:<br /><br />“Dedicate, donate, give all your life to something larger than yourself. To the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. [Meaning] lies this way and it beats [fleeting happiness] hollow.”<br /><br />May the new year bring you peace and good health,<br />Alestra
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