You Don’t Have to Pretend to be Happy All the Time

Liz Jin
2 min readOct 10, 2021

It’s okay to feel overwhelmed and sad (and to be unable to articulate why)

Photo by Jacqueline Munguía on Unsplash

Eight years ago, The World of Coca-Cola held a contest calling for video submissions that captured “moments of happiness” for inclusion in their museum’s welcome video. The winning entries showcased beautiful moments of marriage proposals, weddings, baby announcements, and other joyful celebrations.

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Liz Jin

“I wake up in the morning with a desire to both save the world and savor the world. That makes it hard to plan my day.”