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Happiness tends to be the goal we all as humans attempt to achieve. We all strive for a life that is carefree and without obstacles, but I believe that it may be not all it made out to be.People’s perception of happiness tends to vary, whether it be living with a happy family or amassing a large portion of wealth, so you don’t have to work a single day ever again, but there have been numerous studies saying about how true happiness is in achievable. Like the correlation of happiness to wealth shows there’s a point where, once basic needs are covered, excess wealth causes the happiness of an individual to take a nosedive. As well as that family may in the long run increase happiness, but there’s a clear problem of raising a child is so stressful it coined the term “parental stress” that in turn causes the happiness of an individual to plummet.
Hypothetically, even if you were able to achieve a life devoid of stress, you still wouldn’t be happy. As the brain rewards a hard task by releasing dopamine, the happiness hormone. Meaning despite your hard work to achieve your happy stress-free life, the happiness would fade, and you would grow bored, meaning you’d have to work yet again to achieve your happiness. Condemning yourself to a cycle of chasing the happy life you had just months before like Sköll chasing the sun, its just that, in this instance Ragnarök will not come
These two case studies lead me to believe the concept of true happiness is a lie and, at the end of the day, we must accept there’s no good without the bad, and no happiness with sadness. They both come as a package, and we must accept that its just simply life.

The furry fandom is notorious in online spaces, almost everyone online is fully aware of its existence and opinions on it are very much mixed. I do not identify as a furry, despite carrying the characteristics of one, but I do frequent the community and have a lot of friends within it, and one of the many things you learn is the vast creativity within the fandom with creatives being extremely popular within the fandom, visual artists being the most popular of which, the more popular even have the opportunity to make it a full time job.Now with this knowledge, you’d think that doing anything but art to make money in this fandom would be an act of a crazy person, but popular furry (abbreviated as popufur) BlueFolf has came up with the insane idea of creating a furry soda business.Now this isn’t out of character for Blue, she is well known in the fandom for her crazy ideas, one of which pretending to run against her bigoted state governor (despite her lack of a political background), and gaining quite a rise out of the politician, causing her to go on multiple “anti-furry” rants. Doing all her stunts has amassed her over 46k twitter followers and 484 twitch followers, easily landing her as one of the more popular furries in the fandom in contrast to my 540 twitter followers and 86 twitch followers (not bait for you to follow me :3).Now all this soda business appeared seemingly out of nowhere with blue tweeting “I’m starting the company @Fursodas to make fursona-based drinks for people to commission” on November 27, 2022 seemingly after being inspired by a meme posted to her profile on the same day with the caption “HELP I GOT TURNED INTO A SODA” with a video depicting a satirical soda advert with a picture of her fursona pasted onto a can, seemingly made in blender and/or editing real adverts. The company twitter account then began posting about how they were “coming 2023”. I for one was sceptical on what the product they were providing actually was, thinking it’d just be a blender model of some kind, not uncommon in the furry fandom as I previously stated. However, a tweet tweeted on November 29, 2022 by Blue on her personal account, let everyone know that the product they were providing was legitimate soda, shipped directly to their home, promising “unique” flavours and saying the product was “customizable for fursonas”At this point my curiosity peaked, and lucky for me, Blue follows me so I was able to dm them inquiring for an interview, just desperate for more information about this company she wished to build. She accepted, and the interview will be posted under this article once its completed, as well as my final opinion on the idea.