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Happiness Paradox

When I feel sadness,

it is not because of what I do not have.

It is because I have what others do not.

I should embrace what I do have,

because the skies know how desperately happy I am to have what I do:

But in that fact lies my sadness.

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Published: May 22, 2013
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