August 7, 2025
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” — Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes a few words are enough to shift the way we see the day.
This one stings a little, doesn’t it? Hemingway wasn’t known for sugarcoating things, and this line feels like it was ripped from a group chat for tired, overthinking adults. It’s not that intelligent people can’t be happy, it’s that they can’t stop noticing how much doesn’t make sense. That can be a real buzzkill.
But maybe there’s a silver lining. Maybe happiness for the overthinkers and the deep-feelers just looks different. Not big, loud joy, but small moments of okayness. The first sip of coffee. A conversation that doesn’t drain you. A quiet room with sunlight on the floor. Tiny proof that happiness doesn’t have to be constant to be real.
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