Happiness

Anyone who visits regularly knows I am a little obsessed with narrative and its ability to illustrate, educate and persuade. I came across this one today (thank you, Faramarz) and found its combination of brevity and poignancy to be pretty much perfect.

“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.”