How can I be Happy? :-) – The Answer Wall

Do you mean, how can you feel a deep sense of pleasure or contentment, esp. arising from satisfaction with one’s circumstances or condition? (Oxford English Dictionary) Focus on what’s good in the present moment about your circumstances or condition. The Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh provides some good guidance for this kind of focus in Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (O’Neill Library BQ5410 .N46x 1992).

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.