I’m not sure I knew the details of all these lives when I was 29, but I did begin to guess that happiness lies less in our circumstances than in what we make of them, in every sense. “There is nothing either good or bad,” I had heard in high school, from Hamlet, “but thinking makes it so.”
An excerpt from Pico Iyer on “The Joy of Less”
Provocative essay. Go read it.
Tim Kreider’s “Reprieve” is worth your time, too.
Thanks to Veronica for pointing to the Iyer piece.