I have discovered that good news about the lives of people I have never met but whose blogs I follow make me happy. In the past week, I discovered that one blogger is finally in a relationship that makes her happy, another one finally got pregnant after trying for several years, yet another one had a baby, one is getting her first scholarly article published, and one more has gotten an offer for a post-doc that she wasn’t expecting to get.
Blogging is great because it gives you many more people to care about and feel happy for.
Clarissa's Blog 
It’s not nearly as big a deal as having a baby or getting published, but my first Firefox add-on got “preliminarily reviewed by Mozilla.”
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Oh God, that’s amazing!!! I’m very happy for you!
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I so agree with this.
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🙂 Indeed – I think it’s a great environment. And this phenomenon is finally giving me some insight into why people get so excited over sports teams winning. And they say we lack empathy. HA.
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