Is Happiness Really The Only Thing We

We All Have Direct Experience With Things That Do Or Don't Make Us Happy, We All Have Friends, Therapists, Cabdrivers, And Talk-show Hosts Who Tell Us About Things That Will Or Won't Make Us Happy, And Yet, Despite All This Practice And All This Coaching, Our Search For Happiness Often Culminates In A Stinky Mess. We Expect The Next Car, The Next House, Or The Next Promotion To Make Us Happy Even Though The Last Ones Didn't And Even Though Others Keep Telling Us That The Next Ones Won't.

The Eye And Brain Are Conspirators, And, Like Most Conspiracies, Theirs Is Negotiated Behind Closed Doors, In The Back Room, Outside Of Our Awareness.

In Short, If We Adhere To The Standard Of Perfection In All Our Endeavors, We Are Left With Nothing But Mathematics And The White Album.

The Fact That We Often Judge The Pleasure Of An Experience By Its Ending Can Cause Us To Make Some Curious Choices.

Few Of Us Can Accurately Gauge How We Will Feel Tomorrow Or Next Week. That's Why When You Go To The Supermarket On An Empty Stomach, You'll Buy Too Much, And If You Shop After A Big Meal, You'll Buy Too Little.