Elyse Chantal
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

You have plenty of good things to say in this article about pursuing happiness and what that means, but I wish you hadn’t started your article with such an ahistorical foundation. It looks like you looked up the etymology of “happy” and decided that somehow the usage of this single word is reflective of how people in centuries past understood happiness. I promise you that people in the fourteenth century were just as concerned with pursuing “happiness” as people today, they just didn’t talk about it using the same words that we do today. Don’t undermine your argument by claiming authority on things you clearly know very little about.

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