Good News-Bad News About Happiness

Bad News: Happiness is not a choice.
Good News: You can choose to start the process.

Bad News: Happiness cannot be achieved.
Good News: As you can never achieve happiness, you cannot lose it either. For once, the world is not divided into the "haves" and "have-nots".

Bad News: Happiness is not always an easy process.
Good News: Accepting difficulty makes difficulty easier.

Bad News: Happiness is not eternal bliss.
Good News: Eternal is constant and constant is boring.

Bad News: Happiness takes a back seat to survival.
Good News: We can elevate happiness when basic needs are met.

Bad News: Happiness is not our unconscious goal or ultimate aim. Survival is.
Good News: Happiness is not our unconscious goal or ultimate aim. Survival is.

Bad News: There are times that we have to compromise the ultimate goal of survival. We might feel like an idiot.
Good News: It is possible to compromise the ultimate goal of survival. Feeling like an idiot can be fun.

Bad News: The best players of the survival of the fittest can feel superior over others.
Good News: Happy people do not distinguish between "up" and "down" , "superior" and "inferior". Happy people relate and respond to the whole of life. Thus they are confident.

Bad News: Happy people do not always feel confident; sometimes they suffer unnecessarily.
Good News: Happy people do that with confidence too.

Bad News: Happiness is based on a flexible consciousness. Nobody knows what that is.
Good News: Thankfully there are hints in The Two Wings of Happiness; Connecting Western with Eastern Thought ... soon available.