The 200 Word Novel

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The 200 Word Novel
The 200 Word Novel
Are you happy?

Are you happy?

Do you have to be?

Mar 24, 2022
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Are you happy?
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Happiness is an emotion, not a state of being.

It comes and goes like any other feeling and is not something you achieve or obtain and then just have indefinitely.

It’s okay to be unhappy, even if you have many of the things society tells you that should make you so.

Let yourself have unhappy days. Release the things that you think will “bring you happines…

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