RULE 71
Contentment is a high aim
If you ask a lot of people what they want in life, they say, ‘Oh, just to be happy I guess’. Same goes if you ask what they want for their children, ‘I don’t mind what they do as long as they are happy’. You’d be better off wishing that you or your children could be astronauts or brain surgeons – at least you’re in with a sporting chance then. You can train. They can qualify.
Happiness is such an illusory thing that spending too much time chasing it is not very worthwhile. Happiness is one end of a spectrum – misery being the other end. It is a state of extreme, just as misery represents the other end. If you check back at the times in your life when you’ve been happy – or thought you might have been – I’ll ...
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