happiness

Emojis are some of the best ways of expressing your feelings and appreciation for your friends and family with visuals instead of words, and they can be the perfect pairing to a sweet and grateful text you send.

This photo essay displays happiness captured in our daily lives. To the Daily Cal Photo Department, happiness is…

Whether it’s a bothersome, distracting ad that pops up mid-Netflix binge or I spill my coffee all over my new shirt, it remains my choice as to whether I react with frustration. And now, I simply choose not to.

So, what better way to spread gratitude and joy than to share with all of you what I’ve been feeling grateful for, whether it’s big or small?

Being a Berkeley student can be hard. But it's the little things that can remind us why we chose to go to Berkeley. Here’s a list of some small things I see around Berkeley that bring me joy to help you cope with another long round of midterms. 

this is the fire that poets speak about / that romantics write about, singers sing about, artists paint about, bohemians explore / the fire, the burn that I feel for you.

I am growing / and so are you / at least we know this one thing.

Only recently have I registered how carefully I hold joy in my hands, clutching it, eyeing it, cautiously awaiting its disintegration. 

The album ultimately fails to master the campy, glamorous embodiment of true disco, and its struggle to adhere to one sound begins to grate on the ears.

At the same time, that day-to-day is what you feel, what affects your state of mind most. It’s what will weigh you down or lift you up on your walks to campus. And reaching a better state of mind can be a good first step in reaching those larger goals.