If i could identify what makes me happy <br />I am wondering If identifying it <br />would make me happy? <br /> <br />If happiness is love or money <br />would mere identification <br />result in bliss? <br /> <br />No, I would then have <br />to identify what steps to take <br />to obtain love's best. <br /> <br />But steps sounds like something I would plan <br />and planning sounds artificial <br />and can love come from artifice <br />or worse manipulation? <br /> <br />Can I manipulate my loved one <br />into loving me and live happily ever after? <br /> <br />Or should I leave love to random chance <br />and hope for the best <br />when so much is at stake? <br /> <br />Should I wait passively <br />for love to find me? <br /> <br />All of this not so easy. <br /> <br />What of money? <br /> <br />I could plan riches <br />by training, earning or cheating <br />the Wall Street Way, <br /> <br />but that obviously can go awry <br />or even if not <br />shall I cling to the dollar almighty <br />and proclaim happiness? <br /> <br />If money did this <br />then the rich <br />would be happiest of all; <br />and clearly they are not. <br /> <br />So what to do here: <br />talk about second best? <br /> <br />Well, if life is not going to make me happy <br />it is either I misunderstand what is involved <br />or I should take the money and the random love; <br /> <br />marrying someone who <br />is at best a risk <br />and <br />50% likely to bring me not happiness <br />but unhappiness and divorce. <br /> <br />Am I then to cuddle my dollar bills and <br />unhappy misery; <br />curse my life as unlucky <br />or conclude <br />probably <br />that my bestest bet <br />is that <br />happiness <br />does not lie <br />out there <br />rather <br />it lies <br />within <br />me; <br /> <br />and best to <br />begin my search there; <br />asking then <br />who is the happiest me <br />I can respect?<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bestest-bet/
