“Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness.  The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.  Simple people in less complicated parts of the world function in this manner and exhibit a happiness and tranquility that is a puzzle to us.  How can a peasant in India with so little to be happy about be so happy?  Or how can the peon in Mexico, again with so little to be happy about, be as carefree as he appears?  These people know the art of happiness, contentment with what is.  Their happiness is what happens.  If you can not be happy at the prospect of lunch it is not likely you will be happy over anything.” ~ Robert A. Johnson, He