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Happiness #16

At the beginning, of this opus on the theme of "happiness," I said I wanted to see where it would take me. It has, finally, lead to the term "love." I shall now attempt to describe its relationship to happiness. It seems simple enough, but....

I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you!

A simple three word sentence, but you can get four different perspectives by individually emphazing each word separately. And I have left out the aural affect of inflections and sound modulations made with the human voice.

What Is Happiness?

It has occured to me that I have only indirectly discussed, so far in this discourse, the four letter words. No, not f*** nor s***, but love and hate.

What is happiness?

"Here were the remnants of all that Jack aspired to, the things which he had once imagined would complete him---the rich Persian rugs, the elaborate stereo system, the hundreds of recorded operas and symphonies, the shelf of expensive wines, the photography of his trim white sailboat. Yet none of it had satisfied. For Jack had never mastered the simplest and most precious act---to occupy a space, a moment, and feel the rest." "Dark Lady," by Richard North Patterson, p. 358, Arrow Books, London, 2000).