Three times a day my phone pings with a notification telling me that I have a new happiness survey to take. After I took 100 surveys over about a month, that’s not what my results told me. I reported the most happiness when I was eating and the least when I was working. Being reminded that most of my life is obligatory does not exactly spark joy. Rather than just walking one of my kids home from school and contentedly listening to her chatter about sedimentary rocks, I was thinking about the survey’s infernal happiness toggle and where this experience ranked relative to the other moments I had tracked.

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