"Happiness is the highest purpose and the highest good of human life. All our actions, choices, and desires, after all, are aimed at this one thing: to be happy. However, happiness is not a sudden emotion or a temporary pleasure. It is something that happens in a whole life; just as the beauty of a painting is revealed in the harmony of the whole canvas, not in a single brushstroke."
—Aristotle (paraphrased and inspired by Nicomachean Ethics, Book I)
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The festival lights were dying one by one, but the warmth in my chest refused to fade.
Fenrir, Artemis, and I enjoyed the festival to the fullest.
I was genuinely having fun—laughing at terrible carnival games, stuffing my face with sticky sweets, letting the music and the crowd carry me along.
That simple fact felt like a small miracle.
