<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427753" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Happiness (Reconsidered)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Happiness<br>Is a clean bill of health from the doctor,<br>And the kids shouldn't move back home for<br>more than a year,<br>And not being audited, overdrawn, in Wilkes-Barre,<br>in a lawsuit or in traction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Happiness<br>Is falling asleep without Valium,<br>And having two breasts to put in my brassiere,<br>And not (yet) needing to get my blood pressure lowered,<br>my eyelids raised or a second opinion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on Saturday nights<br>When my husband and I have rented<br>Something with Fred Astaire for the VCR,<br>And we're sitting around in our robes discussing,<br>The state of the world, back exercises, our Keoghs,<br>And whether to fix the transmission or buy a new car,<br>And we're eating a pint of rum-raisin ice cream<br>on the grounds that<br>Tomorrow we're starting a diet of fish, fruit and grain,<br>And my dad's in Miami dating a very nice widow,<br>And no one we love is in serious trouble or pain,<br>And our bringing-up-baby days are far behind us,<br>But our senior-citizen days have not begun,<br>It's not what I called happiness<br>When I was twenty-one,<br>But it's turning out to be<br>What happiness is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judith+Viorst">Judith Viorst</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427753" data-title="Happiness (Reconsidered) de Judith Viorst" data-description="Happiness Is a clean bill of health from the doctor, And the kids shouldn't move back home for more than a year, And not being audited, overdrawn, in Wilkes-Barre, in a lawsuit or in traction. Happiness Is falling asleep without Valium, And havin..."></div> </div> </div>

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