Presumed the post to be a on chocolates or thought you were a chocolate lover! but such a nice way to put it. “Forrest Gump” ..still wishing to see it someday. N it feels good to be commenting after completing some academic papers here.. and Undergrad days can there be anything better! so much of hawa guff, so much fun, the sleepless nights over last moment presentation preparations..Its plain full of adventures! but seeing your EKC curve ..I don’t want to grow any older. Earlier Undergrads would seem sooo old, now almost time for masters and man how fast time flies and we near Death! maybe hahaha

Nevertheless ur conversation with Mr Witt..can I say it was an eyeopener? First you talk of happiness level then he’s moving on to relationship. So my learning for the day is Be Single Status Rocks! but who knows maybe we are acting like the wolf which never got to the grapes and decided it was sour?
Eitherways life rocks..and Happiness after all is but a state of mind…we are all the making of our minds, hoina ta?

i am wondering whether i should be happy hearing that the curve applies to most things in life!?! i haven’t experienced marriage, parenthood etc., so i have to take your words here…but now i think this diminishing-returns-curve might stay in my subconscious to remind (or warn!) me if/when i get into those relationships, now that you told me how its like :-)!

and…how much i wish i was still in vancouver hearing about that “big snow”! i love snow and would have loved to walk on that big snow before it thawed…no snow here in york, only wind and rain…by the way, i saw news (watch cbc’s national once in a while to keep canadian connection alive…or so i think:-)!) about that big storm in vancouver and the landslides in west van…now you tell me there is a big snow…what is world coming to? everybody must be blaming global warming (or usa!) there, or not?

finally, good to see your comment(s) too…and yea, when you put stuffs within “< " and ">“, they will be taken as some html tag so probably won’t appear…but you could do some cool things with those, such as making words appear bold like this or italicised…OR even change the colour!

ah, well.
cheers!

If it makes sense, I have missed your presence online (and you were dangerously close to being demoted into the “check when i have some spare, spare time” category from your current “daily” status. so just under the wire there).

never seen forrest gump, oddly. i missed a lot of movies from that time period. it was a time when i viewed movies as anti-social. could not see why a bunch of friends wanted to get together and sit quietly and not talk and then go home. my boring group of friends never really wanted to hang out after movies. much better in my opinion to go hang out at the bowling alley/pool joint or someones place to talk. unless you were on a date and wanted a place to surreptitiously (sp?) hold hands and snog….

your economics type curves work fine for ecologists, too. particularly the behavioural ecologists who talk a lot about, essentially, the economics of animals (and, grudgingly, i have to admit, plants. they behave too, i guess). absolutely. i think that curve applies to most ANYTHING in life. having babies (initially very stressful/strange, moving onto thrilling fun, then some sort of diminishing returns… actually, i think parenthood is a sine wave. probably actually a tangent, because you DO start on a high, then crash quickly. or we did. marriage? maybe that too, but tisha may enter the room at any moment, so you figure that one out. probably a tan, too, what with the hot’n heavy early on, then the taking for granted and doldrums. imagine eating your favourite food EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.)

i like these mindless, wandering posts of yours. makes me feel consistent when i mention things like our big snowfall recently (at about my knees, which has happened now about 3 or 4 times in my 34 years in vancouver), the sore shoulders i have, my son’s and wife’s inability to tolerate the windchill (minus 18 to 20), my disappointment at not having a walking partner, as i love walking on snowy and snowing nights. i got one hour long, late, snowy beautiful walk before it turned to slush. fantastic.

well, must go have dinner now, tish will be waiting. take care Poudyalji. All our best to you.

darren, tisha, ben, and