"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence" - Aristotle. Barely over thirty, yet the skin on his forehead is heavily furrowed, like a board occupied by jagged cigarette rolls; the eyes, never appearing to hold any light; the shoulders sagging, as if they had been reduced by the load they have had to carry for so long. Other times, he appears as one carrying a perpetual scowl on the face- everyone must know he has no time to fool around. Many of us are either becoming that or are already that way. We say, boys (or girls) are not smiling. Life is hard, the economy has never been good, things are messed up, so we forget that we are persons deserving of true happiness. We carry our worries, fears and anxieties everywhere like a jeweled cross, an amulet in fact. Yet most of us concede that happiness is our primary life goal, the reason we work so hard and go
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