Assignment: Find the ratio of happiness to other feelings in your life and graph it. You've got 10 seconds to complete the thought, 2 minutes to prepare your work, 30 seconds for revisions, and 2 seconds to clear your throat before your speech in front of humanity. They then will critique you and you will have the rest of your life to either believe them, reject them, or wonder if you are indeed happy at all.
Now, take that data, that introspection, that intervention and translate it into the mechanics of your daily schedule. Don't forget to add in your spiritual infrastructure and wishful dreams. Negate the influence of all sensory inputs, including sound, sight, and the rest. The result will be a negative quotient which will need to be converted into useful information.
So, take your quotient and multiply it by the amount of hours you have left in your yet-to-be-determined life, rounding to the nearest breath.
Next, take 10% off for the tip, aka gratuity, of being allowed to be alive and leave that in the government coffers upon your premature, tragic, unforeseen, or selfish exit. This 10% can be subtracted from your final gross figure provided your exit is of substantial or innovative means ie: dying on Marta will not be considered for subtraction; skydiving and impaling yourself on your very own premedicated and prepared tombstone would be considered, at least until it became a standard practice.
After you have crunched a subtotal of these numbers you will need to convert this data into fractions. The numerator should be the amount of positive input your life expressed, while the denominator will become the damage you caused yourself. After you have divided yourself into black and white you will need to take a negative photographic image of that number for inclusion in the book of purgatory, allowing no room for error because indeed you will be strenuously fact checked.
At this point you will have a successful resolution to how to gauge how happy you are according to the sliding, transitional scale of how short life is. And at that point it is up to you to use that data in the way that you see fit.
1 comment:
You know, that's a valid follow-up question. I really hadn't taken the time to consider my level of happiness one way or the other until the question was posed to me.
My writings, truthful but mostly about pain, paint me as a sad person. My history confirms that opinion. My self opinion is 50/50.
But using this math formula, this theory of measuring the level of your happiness against the shortness of your life, balanced against the positive and negative expressions...well, I guess I'm not happy.
Funny though, b/c I thought I was happy...but only against the backdrop of what unhappiness I had b/4 or how much worse it could be.
So, I don't like to think that I'm walking around, living and breathing and unhappy, in my life without contentment.
It is something I'm seeing afresh, something I need to focus on, something in need of some help.
Thanks for the question and comment sci40995.
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