Happiness is being Ernie the Attorney

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What is happiness?

Perhaps, happiness is being Ernie the Attorney:

http://www.ernietheattorney.net/

I found this while searching for "What is Happiness"

I searched on "Is happiness normal" but got very few hits.

Ernie is a real person in New Orleans, a real attorney.

His blog looks like an interesting read!

Ernie had posted the following regarding happiness:

August 26, 2005
What is happiness?

And now, for your thoughtful consideration, I offer the following

aphorism that one of my philosophy professors once uttered. It was

offered as a throw-away comment, but somehow it burned a hole into

my consciousness and I keep thinking about it.

See the happy idiot
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I were an idiot.
My God! Perhaps I am.


Now I must google to find some other great people, and perhaps even Hector the Garbage Collector!

 

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Ernie recommends THIS blog, which looks like a really good read

http://gladwell.typepad.com/

I am rapidly approaching my goal of becoming Ernie the Attorney and achieving true happiness.

A Zen master said to the hotdog vendor: "Make me one with everything."

If happiness means becoming one with all, then Ernie is part of that all, so my becoming Ernie is one step in the right direction.

 

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And look! Ernie likes books:

Four books I really love:

* The Catcher in the Rye
* The Lazlo Letters
* Look Homeward Angel
* The Path Between the Seas

I just sent him an e-mail to express my admiration.

Perhaps he will join TBF!

Why do I feel like Dave Letterman this morning?

 

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It is not wrong to want to be Ernie the Attorney!

Woody Allen said, "My one regret in life is that I was not someone else."