Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
When I lived in Izmir, a neighbor asked me one day:
Doydun yerin nerede?
Literally, this means, where is your full place?
She was asking me where is the place that makes me feel full, or happy.
What I could not explain to her then, back in 2005, which some blogging friends have recently reminded me to point out, is that contentment, far more than happiness, is a stable emotion, rather than a fleeting feeling based on dopamine or serotonin, and it requires a larger context. That context is built out of a life that renders service. A life, for me, that builds tools and leaves a scaffolding upon which others may continue to build, to create the equitable world that would be safe, kind, and respectful of the dignity and potential of every human being born into this world, is a happy one.
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