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As always, it is my pleasure to share with you exciting life events shared with us by fellow alumni.
Nicole (Goubeaux), G’09, and Daniel De Longe, G’07, welcomed baby girl Brooklyn Nicole on March 4, 2012, and Ellie (Wright), G’08, and Justin Moser, G’11, welcomed their son Micah Shade on Nov. 30, 2011. If you have any events that you would like to share with our fellow alumni, please email them to me or contact the Alumni Office. When I sat down to write this installment of Campus Connection, I wanted to find something inspirational to share with you. I began searching and came across the following narrative, titled “Look Within To Find Happiness.”
LaChrystal Ricke, G’03 2000s Class Agent lachrystalricke@gmail.com
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“A close friend said, ‘If I could only figure this out, I think I could find happiness.’ I have heard this before and will hear it again I am sure. Many people want to believe that finding happiness is all about finding something else they want. Not many have ever found long term happiness by achieving another
goal. The answer to finding happiness is to look within. In other words, happiness is completely an inside job. The most important piece to finding happiness is to comprehend happiness is a choice and not the result of an experience. If all happiness could be found as the result of an acquisition, meeting a goal, or having anything, then a person’s happiness would always be subject to something else. Remember this: one definition of happiness is simply the absence of an opposite emotion whether it is pain, sadness or something else. If the opposite emotions are never experienced then happiness can never be experienced either. Think about it like this: bad times allow you to appreciate good times; hunger allows you to appreciate food; and sadness allows you to appreciate and experience happiness. The dictionary defines happiness as enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction or joy.” (Continued on Page 2)