This is How
“I can’t think of another phrase capable of causing more misery and permanent unhappiness. With the possible exception of, “Honey, I’m in love with your youngest sister and she’s agreed to marry me so I’d like a divorce.”
Yet at first glance, it seems so guileless. Children just want to be happy. So do puppies and some middle-aged custodians.
Happy seems like a healthy, normal desire. Like wanting to breathe fresh air or shop only at Whole Foods.
But “I just want to be happy” is a hole cut out o...f the floor and covered with a rug.
Here’s the problem: when you say to yourself or somebody else, “I just want to be happy,” the implication is that you’re not.
So what you want is something you don’t have.
That’s a mole behind your ear. Maybe it’s just a mole and that’s all it is. Wanting health insurance when you don’t have it, wanting your kids to get a good education—nothing troubling about that.
But maybe that mole is something worse that’s going to spread.MoreLess
Yet at first glance, it seems so guileless. Children just want to be happy. So do puppies and some middle-aged custodians.
Happy seems like a healthy, normal desire. Like wanting to breathe fresh air or shop only at Whole Foods.
But “I just want to be happy” is a hole cut out o...f the floor and covered with a rug.
Here’s the problem: when you say to yourself or somebody else, “I just want to be happy,” the implication is that you’re not.
So what you want is something you don’t have.
That’s a mole behind your ear. Maybe it’s just a mole and that’s all it is. Wanting health insurance when you don’t have it, wanting your kids to get a good education—nothing troubling about that.
But maybe that mole is something worse that’s going to spread.MoreLess
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