How about returning to a series of posts I left behind in 2016? (Yes, this is because I was contemplating my extensive blog backlog.) (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.)
This is what happiness really looks like: Molecules of the protein myosin drag a ball of endorphins along an active filament int
It was a compelling idea, but alas:
Because this picture shows an artist’s visualization of a kinesin protein in a white blood cell and not a myosin protein in a neuron, and it is not an actual video but a representation, we rate the claim that this picture is a visual representation of “happiness” as false.
– Snopes
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
– Seneca
And finally…
…thus endeth the resurrection of my final notes on the It’s Ok to Be Sad series. Perhaps, as we approach two solid years of COVID misery, it was a good time to revisit it.