Happiness doesn’t have to be big or loud. In fact, it often tiptoes in during small moments. The Happiness Project is designed to capture those moments and inspire–based on how the compact can have so much consequence. Here is an example from David J Danto, Director of UC Strategy and Research at Poly:
Moments of Happiness: Exhaustion and Love
To work on this happiness project I had to go through my archive of old photos. There were a lot of possible choices. I never got to travel growing-up and until I was married, so the pictures of traveling with my family were amongst the top choices – like visiting Disneyland or Abbey Road for the first time, or that time we stopped at Nothing (Arizona.). I spend a lot of time at business conferences in Las Vegas so there are a lot of choices there, like that time I renewed my vows on the Starship Enterprise, and the Chihuly glass ceiling or the Gardens at the Bellagio. A couple of very special contenders were side-by-side comparisons – one a photo of the replica Fontaine des Mers that used to be in front of Paris Las Vegas – on top of the image ten years later of actually visiting the real one in Paris; and another one of my wife and I two months after meeting and then twenty years later. (You can see all these and a few more candidates if you’re interested at https://danto.info/HappyPhotos.htm .) Ultimately, I selected the attached photo. It was 2009 and my wife and I were on a tour of somewhere – I honestly can’t remember where. We had just gotten back on the bus – and we were exhausted. The comfort and joy that comes from leaning on your soulmate after a long and good but tiring day is likely the best definition of happiness that I will ever know.
To submit your moment of happiness, reach out to me at tbrower108@gmail.com.
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