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A few weeks ago I wrote an Aura for WeakAuras which shows up whenever the Statue doesn't heal anything. It is quite usefull for huge encounters like Dark Shamans.

I couldn't sleep for some reason and I started to think about something that happend 2 1/2 years ago in the school where I was for my vocational baccalaureate diploma (or 'Fachabitur' in german). And for some reason I had the need to write it down.

Preamble: It was the first German period of the year and the topic was "Happiness-Index". A few weeks before that period the annual Happiness-index for Germany was released and thus it created some stuff to discuss in school. So the teacher orded us to form groups (with people I never met before) and to think of a somewhat useful display of some way to indicate happiness ("For example a mindmap", he said).

As soon as he finished that certain sentence all the teams, including mine, started to talk about that topic but I halted my group in that very second. "What are you intend do to?", I asked. He said: "I write 'Happiness' into the center to start the mindmap." I'm not sure how hard I facepalmed in that very second. However I asked him gently: "Look to the other teams. What do you think will they do?" "A Mindmap probably." "And for what reason? The topic is to create an index where you can compare yourself with other people in terms of happiness. What can a mindmap possibly tell you?" "I don't know." And the rest of my group didn't know either.

After this 'question session' I started to develop a system consisted of two circles. Each circle had the same four topics at the four cardinal points (if I recall correctly they were: Relationship, Money, Health, Work). One circle should illustrate the personal happniess about a certain topic and the other circle should illustrate the importance of a certain topic in general. And if you multiply the areas of both circles you can determine your percentage value of happiness.

Surely, this was a rough system created in less than 20 minutes but it created content to discuss for about 50 minutes in a 90 minute period. As expected all the other teams created a mindmap which had almost the same topics.

In my explanation about my system I mentioned that each topic of all the other teams could fit in one of my topics. Instantly said someone that this can't be true, for some reason. But it turned out I was right after all. End of Preamble.

Aside the fact that all the other teams were unable to think by their own effort they didn't even waste one second to think about what it means to measure happiness but only to feel it. Surely it sounds harsh in the first moment but it was the task after all. But this leads me to one question:

Do people care about their happiness?

I guess most of the people would say yes. And this is good. But my real thought lies in "maybe too much?".

The problem with happiness is similar to the speed of light. The more you get closer to the 100% state the more energy you need to reach it. Which leads one to another conclusion:

Is it worth to ever feel true 100% happiness?

I assume most people would also say yes. And this is bad.

The problem with this statement is as soon as they are shortly before that final state they still find something that is possible to improve. And as soon as they fixed that something else is not right. This creates a juggling act which can easily devastate a life due to their narrowed focus.

As we know from Meghan McCarthy via Twitter Season 4 will be a season long story arc. But currently I don't feel anything about it. Is it because I didn't saw it yet?

Flight to the Finish continued the minor arc of the Equestria Games which isn't a big deal, so I thought. In Daring Don't there was a short scene were the Mane 6 travelled through Equestria. Although there were some slight differences in art the map resembled the Equestria Map from the guidebook. With help of that map we can be sure that the episode Daring Don't took place northeast of Vanhoover.

If the season has a 100% percent continuity through each episode we can assume that Ahuizotl can make a return during the Equestria Games and Daring Do with him.

Surely there is also the possiblility that Daring Don't was a fan service episode after all. But I won't believe it until the end of the season.

And we doesn't have that much time left within the season for a good conclusion of the six key chest especially when I see the summaries about the next four episodes.

Power Ponies will be a fun/action episode which is only assumption with a high possibility. Although.... Meghan McCarthy wrote at it which can lead to a key episode. But I think the chance is higher that it won't be a key episode.

But I'm sure Bats! will be one if not Power Ponies. The Timing is good and the viewers will become distempered if this won't be a key episode. It would be really strange if all six keys are revealed in a single two-parter or the search continues into a fifth season.

Currently I don't know much about Rarity Takes Manehatten. It maybe will be another fashionista episode with a possibility of Babs Seed return. And the same can be said about Pinkie Apple Pie.

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