Henry Happiness

   My main thread throughout the last post was my emphasis on enjoying the little things. I have been thinking this weekend and I think one of my favorite things is road trips. This often happens when I am traveling to tournaments. Most of the major Warhammer tournaments are on the east coast. That means over the past five years I have had quite a lot of three to five-hour car rides with my friends. The first few could have been more comfortable. The way it would typically go is that we hit the two hour mark and we realized that we no longer had anything superficial to talk about. We had made all the same jokes and told the same funny childhood stories. This often coincides with me having to take my mandatory stretch break. After about two and a half hours my legs begin to cramp. I have found that there is something truly magical about stopping at a gas station in the early hours of the morning. I have more deep conversations with my friends under the lights of a 7/11 than any...

 I have always been a firm believer in waiting. At times in my childhood, I believed that happiness came from those special moments and that they would inspire you. This semester I have still not had that perfect inspiration to start these blog posts. However, I need to start and quit waiting for the first great idea. In a way, it's my own fault between a full course load working part-time, and keeping my girlfriend happy I have learned a valuable lesson. Very few times in life does that happy perfect moment occur. As I have grown up I have found that very often life doesn't not tend to wait for you. I have definitely felt those over the past 4 weeks while trying to be happy. I have found all the topics that we have talked about so far really interesting, and the unique thread between them has been that you can't wait to let happiness happen to you. When it comes to culture and personality along with age one has to be proactive. Even though the culture feels a certain way y...