i've been thinking about happiness lately
 -tom hurls, a video to save you from infinite scrolling

tom says, in a way i find reminiscent of the way i write, and it hooked me in a way to write this ramble. and i have! in all the pop psychology of 'dopamine' and 'serotonin' floating around the web, it drives us to seek and decide for ourselves: what is our happiness? i've downloaded and opened camus' myth of sisyphus, which is so popular everyone references it, but i need to know if my understanding of it matches the source material. we must imagine sisyphus happy, it says.

i'm sure another ramble will be on its way whenever i finish the essay (and don't expect promptness), but i want to write about happiness today, now, as i feel it, because it might change my perception. i've only had a taste of domesticity, like when we went to drop amohi to kindergarten and then walked around for a while, but it seems nice. the more i think about it, the more this quote appeals to me.

in another life, i would've really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you
 -everything everywhere all at once

i realise i'm rounding back onto my point: r/benignexistnce is the subreddit of all time. but, you know, maybe the true happiness was the friends we made along the way.