Frontpaging this? You know what the consequence is of that? It makes the hoop hang higher for the next time! The next time, I really need to sparkle, when I come here with a (semi-)serious item... In hindsight though, when I cut the newspaper clipping out on Tuesday with the intent to diary it, I had no idea there would be a somewhat ironic actuality tied to it at the moment of posting...

But here is a question I had for a professinal, so now I've found one. Haha!

Let's see. The research of Bartels focusses on happiness, but what often happens is that people lodges instead onto the other side: depression - also very clearly visible in this thread, might I say. I generalise, but the thought seems to be: If happiness is explained, then inherently there is an explanation for depression. Isn't that a bit jumping the gun? Is the lack of happiness always depression? I could see that they're diametrically opposed (but are they?), but isn't there a little more to to it than that?

And this is why gauging happiness was a debated issue in this research. Apparently we have sufficient methodology to decide when someone is depressed, but is there for happiness? It seems not.