<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448319" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bestest Bet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If i could identify what makes me happy<br>I am wondering If identifying it<br>would make me happy? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If happiness is love or money<br>would mere identification<br>result in bliss? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, I would then have<br>to identify what steps to take <br>to obtain love's best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But steps sounds like something I would plan<br>and planning sounds artificial<br>and can love come from artifice<br>or worse manipulation? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can I manipulate my loved one<br>into loving me and live happily ever after? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or should I leave love to random chance<br>and hope for the best<br>when so much is at stake? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should I wait passively<br>for love to find me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All of this not so easy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of money? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could plan riches<br>by training, earning or cheating<br>the Wall Street Way, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but that obviously can go awry<br>or even if not<br>shall I cling to the dollar almighty<br>and proclaim happiness? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If money did this<br>then the rich <br>would be happiest of all; <br>and clearly they are not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So what to do here: <br>talk about second best? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">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; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">marrying someone who<br>is at best a risk<br>and<br>50% likely to bring me not happiness<br>but unhappiness and divorce.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">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?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</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=448319" data-title="Bestest Bet de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="If i could identify what makes me happy I am wondering If identifying it would make me happy? If happiness is love or money would mere identification result in bliss? No, I would then have to identify what steps to take to obtain love's best...."></div> </div> </div>

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