They say that parents report unhappiness at just about every moment during the day, but complete satisfaction and even joy at the end of the day. Writing a paper is just the opposite: no matter how often one is pleased by the expression of a thought or delighted by a turn of phrase, at the end of the day misery and exhaustion.
I have thoughts about the importance of time and of the "shape" or trajectory of experience for thinking about happiness (it comes into the final section of my dissertation, on the self-sufficiency of happiness), but I'll leave them for later.
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