Happiness.

I just bought Dennis Prager's book, "Happiness is a Serious Problem." Here is something very interesting that I just read.

"People compare themselves with anyone they think is happier. In fact, the less we know about the people with whom we compare ourselves, the more dramatic the difference in assumed happiness. In the words of Helen Telushkin...,"The only happy people I know are people I don't know well."

If all of us realized that the people with whom we negatively compare our happiness are plagued by pains and demons of which we know little or nothing, we would stop comparing our happiness with others'."

I think that his conclusions are pretty profound. The closer you are to somebody, the more you know about them. And the more that you know about them, the more that you realize that they have their own problems too. Looking at a movie star, for example, you only see the most outward appearances, so you assume that since they have "everything," that they must be happy. I would have to say that 99% of the time, it's quite the opposite.

Keep on keepin' on.