Archive for April, 2006

The question of happiness

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

I just finished reading an interesting book - “The question of happiness”, by Tal Ben Shahar.

Tal claims that there are four types of persons: Rat racers, who are not happy now, but are working hard towards goals that should make them happy: degrees, job promotions, etc. But they are never happy. There are hedonists, who are “enjoying” the present, having a good time, but do not care about the future. After a while, they stop being happy. There are people who are not happy, neither have hopes at being happy.

Then there is the fourth type: Those who are enjoying their present time, but still have goals set in the future. This is obviously what we should strive to be. Find a job that interests us, and that we enjoy. Have goals, and achieve them, but not at too large a cost.

I guess I have been a rat-racer most of my life… I’m trying to change that now.

First post…

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Hello.

This is my first post on my blog. Pretty exciting.

As this is my personal blog, I will probably talk about my life, my girlfriend Michal, my travel and photos, my sharewares and web sites, and what not.

I hope you won’t find this boring as hell.

R.