By Gretchen Rubin
It's very true that novelty and challenge bring happiness. It's also very true that novelty and challenge often bring feelings of anxiety, frustration, anger, boredom, and insecurity. Learning to do new things, or to face new situations, isn't always fun.
It's one of my favorite paradoxes of happiness: Happiness doesn't always make me feel happy.
For the past week, I've been trying to learn to do something new and challenging. I want to make some of my favorite one-sentence aphorisms, Secrets of Adulthood, paradoxes, and the like into nicely designed jpegs. It's harder than I expected! But I've learned a lot.
Here's one of my experiments.
A question for you, readers. My handwriting isn't very attractive; is it a nice, homey touch, or would this... More...
