Maria Popova's "An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence"

Read the article distributed in class by Maria Popova.  It is an interesting reading.  You should read it throughly and choose a few specific quotations that you want to expand upon.  You can use personal experience and opinion to relate to the quotations you choose; however, be sure to respond to the article itself too.  One such quote that stands out to me is "Happiness. . . isn't a matter of improving our experience, or even merely confronting it, but remaining present with it in the fullest possible sense: To stand face to face with insecurity is still not to understand it. To understand it, you must not face it but be it."   I remember looking for happiness for quite a few years in my teenage and young adult years. After exhausting most of my attempts at being happier, I realized that I had to embrace happiness within myself - in other words, I had to "be" happy.  I would like to elaborate more on this but I am just setting you up for your own blog.  Enjoy!  Do a great job.  This is my last blog for you.  Next week, your blog will be sent from Mrs. Messenio.