Getting Happiness from the Bread
One of patients in a hospital, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer, he would be upset unless things went a certain way. Happiness was "having the cookie." If you had the cookie, things would be good. If you didn't have the cookie, life was nothing. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the Rolex, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address. Until he knew he was ill for the cancer, he sits shaking his head ruefully. He took off his patek philippe watch to the people who need money and his wealth was all donated by him. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. But he has no feeling with a piece of luxury replica watch. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long. You know, you have to give up a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be sure that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. Having the cookie is not what life is about."