The Happy Colour

This being my first post I will keep it relatively simple.

First, you may be wondering what exactly is 'the Happy Colour'? Happy Colour is a term I acquired from an in class session in which a teacher accidentally said 'There are two types of colours in Chinese calligraphy; Soft Colours, and Happy Colours." The term happy colour has stuck with me since then, as it is seemingly absurd, to me, to label certain colours as happy and others as not. It is in some way attempting to place some sort of epistemic value on something so unavoidably relative. I chose to use it as an online alias as the term always seems to arouse thought, even if it is as simple as 'What the hecks a happy colour?'. And as well I cannot avoid the invariable comparison that what is a happy colour for one is different for another, just as what is right for one may be very different for another.

With this aside time for a quick introduction. My name is Nathan Hunt and I am a 26 year old Canadian. Currently I am philosophy major at the University of Calgary. In terms of hobbies I am an avid gamer, a martial artist (currently training in traditional Muay Thai), and free-lance writer working on various projects. It should as well be noted that I am religously motivated and label myself most simply as being of Buddhist thought. For the past year I had been blogging at 'today.com', but due to disagreements with the approach of service I am transferring my blogging from 'Journeyman Philosopher' & 'Intellectual Gamer' to this new blog.

The goal of this blog will be to have a place where I can freely express my own ideas regarding the world, be it my views on philosophy or perhaps even thoughts on modern video entertainment. If you are coming as a previous reader of my old blogs I can assure you the content will be of a similar nature, yet will be more geared at expressing my daily thoughts free of a restrictive theme such as 'philosophy only' and 'gaming only'. This isn't to say however that it will not be philosophical, as I seem to be incapable of understanding the world around me without it.

I'd like to thank you for reading, and I hope you feel comfortable stopping in with a comment expressing your own thoughts every now and then.