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Final sof

Posted 2014-10-25 07:12:31 | Views: 714
October 13th, 2014  
Dear Sofie,
I have a question to ask for a project I’m working on and you came to mind. I’m hoping to respond creatively, in some way, to your answer and include it in my final work. I thought about our conversations when deciding on these questions so hopefully you enjoy answering the one I have chosen for you. So, why are you happy?

Final dear sofie

Posted 2014-10-25 05:16:54 | Views: 755
October 13th, 2014 
Dear Sofie,
I have a question to ask for a project I’m working on and you came to mind. I’m hoping to respond creatively, in some way, to your answer and include it in my final work. I thought about our conversations when deciding on these questions so hopefully you enjoy answering the one I have chosen for you. So, why are you happy?

make up again

Posted 2014-10-25 04:37:33 | Views: 524
How to Nail the perfect party look (and perhaps find happiness)

bec makeup again

Posted 2014-10-25 03:42:55 | Views: 632
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the end

Posted 2014-10-25 03:30:56 | Views: 779
You've reached the end. 
Thanks for climbing into my brain for a while.



















Nataly Perez
2014

table of contents

Posted 2014-10-25 02:19:02 | Views: 750
Inside you'll find...
Page 1. Conversations with Myself
Exploring the relationship between music, memories and emotions.

Page 8. The Artist
Reading between the lines in a place where happiness and art meet.

Page 9. Equilibrium
A personal essay examining the development of a path to happiness and stumbles along the way.

Page 13. Make Up Your Mind
A make up tutorial with a twist.

Page 16. Dear Sofie
A glimpse into the growth of a friendship.


title page

Posted 2014-10-25 01:34:57 | Views: 677
Reflections and recollections on the path to happiness
Tidbits

Conversations with Myself

Posted 2014-10-24 04:40:28 | Views: 705
What represents happiness to me? 

If I have to narrow it down, it would be the unconscious expression of a body in motion. A startled laugh, limbs moving to the music or complete elation when a breeze blows through your hair. When you don’t have time to think or be constricted by what is socially acceptable. When you are moved to tears or when you declare your love for a stranger through wine-hazed vision. Happiness to me is freedom. 

do you know

Posted 2014-10-24 04:36:10 | Views: 758
Do you know what it’s like to wake up and not fear war? 

To smile at a stranger and not fear any sort of prosecution? 

To be educated, despite your gender. 

To raise your hand and disagree. 

To drink freely, in the company of friends and know that you are free to enjoy 
yourselves. 

To listen to any type of music, by any sort of artist, singing about whatever they like.

I do.

Hopefully you do too.

whales

Posted 2014-10-24 04:27:03 | Views: 605
"He said he had lost, 
lost a sense of direction
there was something in the water
yeah, a murky affliction "
 Whales – Set Sail 

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Posted 2014-10-24 04:19:21 | Views: 666
NP: What represents happiness to you?  
AC: Happiness is being excited about what you've got to look forward to in the near and distant future. Its being relatively content with where you are in the world in regards to everything - friends, family, career, work/life balance, money, physique etc and not having any major stress in your life, whether that stress is real or entirely in your own mind.

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Posted 2014-10-24 04:10:41 | Views: 633
"I know it’s been thousands of years  
and I feel your hurt
and I know it’s wrong
and you feel you’ve been chained and broken and burned"
 Spirit Bird- Xavier Rudd 

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Posted 2014-10-24 04:00:05 | Views: 742
October 19th, 2014.
Dear Sofie,

Your answer is wonderful. I’ve really struggled with some parts of this project but this exchange, this is what I was hoping for when I started this. To be that self aware and search for little snippets of happiness in others and their projects, that is in my eyes a worthy pursuit of happiness. Although, it is not my place to define the worthiness of such pursuits. To be conscious of someone else’s expansion of happiness through art or music is very similar to my idea of happiness. Genuine emotion is a huge part of my definition because there is no room to be shy or stop yourself from swearing when you are completely overwhelmed with emotion.

I can’t thank you enough for answering my question and helping me out. I’ll miss you when I go overseas but I know you’re rooting for me to do this and it is something I need. Travel is an undeniable freedom and I hope to be thoroughly cast in the deep end with this first solo trip. How did you manage Laos with the language barrier? Did you speak English?

I’ll send you a post card. I’m not sure how reliable these jungle mail men are but it’ll find its way to you, somehow.

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Posted 2014-10-24 03:57:50 | Views: 634
Apologies if it makes no sense! Also, I refer to this quote often, I really really like it and it makes me happy too:

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think, the way they see themselves, the way they see the world. If you can do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create.” -Chuck Palahniuk 

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that what makes me happiest is the parts of people that can't be seen, the way that small parts of people can have such a big influence on others and the world, that gives me faith and makes me happy.

dear nat

Posted 2014-10-24 03:56:06 | Views: 833
October 16th, 2014
Dear Nat,

Ok here is my supremely ineloquent, first thing that came to my mind answer!

Humans make me happy. In the same way that some people have a deep connection with a certain place or piece of music, the sense of calm and happiness and complete contentment that they gain by simply being in its presence, I get from people. The strength and happiness that I gain from people in my life simply being there even when they’re not physically there is unequivocal. And the capacity for people to forgive and sacrifice and find happiness make me happy. And things that people do makes me so happy; art and music which show a part of a person’s passion, when you can feel what that person feels when you see their art. People give me faith; faith in my future and faith and motivation for my studies and goal and that makes me really happy.