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Heather's is a dark comedy set in 1988, written by Micheal Lehmann, about a girl named Veronica Sawyer who lives in Ohio and is part of the most popular clique in school with the girls, all named Heather, The Heathers indulge in cruel behavior in which Veronica doesn't agree with. She soon falls in love with the edgy new kid in school, J.D., who starts to question Veronica's choice of friends. She then plays a prank on the main Heather, Heather Chandler, and accidentally poisons her, causing her to die. J.D. convinces Veronica to forge a suicide note and make it look like a suicide instead of a murder. Veronica eventually realizes that J.D. is killing students that he does not care for on purpose. She then tries to stop him while also trying to avoid conflict with another Heather, Heather Dukes. In the opening scene, it zooms in on the back of Heather Chandlers's head, showing her tying her hair up into a red scrunchy, which later in the movie is seen as a status symb...

"Anyone who can maintain a state of happiness, given the state of the world, is living in a delusion" claims philosopher and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, and I seem to agree.  Constantly maintaining happiness is not realistic ,especially  in this day and age when there are all types of scary and confusing things happening in the world and in this country.Things like the recent school shootings across the country and the comeback of outdated deadly diseases, due to parents refusing to vaccinate their kids. but I mainly agree because the pursuit of happiness can only bring negative emotion and maintaining happiness while pursuing it is impossible, but also because negative emotions are very much needed. John Stuart mill said it the best, "ask yourself if you are happy and you cease to be so" (Mill, 531). Pursuing happiness only brings discontent and lack of enjoyment. The more time you spend trying to be happy, the less time you spend actually being happy. You set t...