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hap */hap/ noun 1. luck; fortune verb 1. come about by chance* And it hit me, by happenstance, that perhaps, per-chance I'd been wrong. Wrong in believing a happiness was owed to people and would flow to me not by happenstance but by choice. By choice and by choosing the right path. But the path of choice and of choosing the one that is right is a very wrong and anxious path indeed. And indeed I am the anxious type from years of fears that by trusting choice over happenstance I'd choose wrong. But I didn't choose wrong. Nor did I choose right. I chose not to choose at all. I'm also the sad type. And now I worry that by definition of hap and thus of happiness I'm not sad by happenstance but of choice.
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Apr 12, 2017
Apr 12, 2017 at 9:32 PM UTC
Hap
hap */hap/ noun 1. luck; fortune verb 1. come about by chance* And it hit me, by happenstance, that perhaps, per-chance I'd been wrong. Wrong in believing a happiness was owed to people and would flow to me not by happenstance but by choice. By choice and by choosing the right path. But the path of choice and of choosing the one that is right is a very wrong and anxious path indeed. And indeed I am the anxious type from years of fears that by trusting choice over happenstance I'd choose wrong. But I didn't choose wrong. Nor did I choose right. I chose not to choose at all. I'm also the sad type. And now I worry that by definition of hap and thus of happiness I'm not sad by happenstance but of choice.
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Apr 12, 2017
Apr 12, 2017 at 9:32 PM UTC
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