Happy or Not?
March 10th, 2010For all our modern inventions there are surprisingly few designed specifically with the intention of solely making us happy: there are many things designed to make us feel unhappy; school-teachers, council-tax, alarm-clocks which cause an instant and distressing feeling to name but a few. You would think that by reversing these things happiness would be allowed to breed instantly. Yeah right! We’d find things to moan about though, wouldn’t we? Either that or the over-load of happiness would cause people who hate happy people to feel appalling. And the cycle would begin again. The happy hating the miserable, and the miserable infecting those in-between!
Since writing that last sentence (0.25 seconds ago) I have done some semi-serious thinking. I still can’t come up with things designed to make people happy–well, at least I can’t think of anything that I can write here. But seriously, it’s tough. Of the various ideas swimming about in the tangled-mess of my brain, this is all I have: 1) those head massager things which may or may not have originated in
