The Most Overlooked Form Of Happiness

James Taylor Foreman
6 min readJun 27, 2020

Do you want to be happy?

I mean, obviously we want to be happy. My instincts tell me that happiness can’t be the only goal, or at least it can’t be the short-term goal. You know, because heroin achieves happiness in the short term. So, what the hell are we talking about, happiness?

When I think about the goals I have in my life — to succeed, to have children, to do good…

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James Taylor Foreman

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