Happicle

What is Happicle?


1.

happicle n (happy + diminutive suffix Ðicle, like in "particle," "icicle") Ð a particle of happiness, the smallest unit of happiness; a single happy occurrence or a momentary feeling of happiness.

There is no happiness in this world, but there are happicles. Sometimes we can catch them, fleeting and unpredictable as they are.

Like photons, happicles have zero mass at rest--the inertial mass that we identify with happiness. Happicles just flash and go out in passing. They may be as transitory as a fragrance in the air, or a yellow falling leaf, or a glance of a passerby on the street.

Happicles make life worth of living, even in the absence of stable happiness.


39

Random Words:

1. A bizarre and senseless misintepretation of the name 'Dave'. Phone Caller: "Hi Roberto, it's Dave. Is Mike there?&..
1. The mouth of a horn-playing jazz musician. Sounds nasty (intentionally so), but it's not. Lester's free-form sax playing was ..
1. The driving force behind the story in the Frank Zappa concept album Thing-Fish. "invented by an Evil Prince (and part-time theater..