If I built a rocket and flew it to the moon
Would that make me happy
I do not think so
If I was doing it to make myself happy then
I don’t think so
My thoughts would be
Maybe it will make me happy
Can it make me happy
Building a Rocket is HARD
Am I happy
Flying a Rocket is Terrifying
Why am I not happy yet
Here I am on the moon
not Happy
However
If I really
really
REALLY
wanted to see the moon
And I had dreamed all my life of how GLORIOUS it wold be
To fly a rocket
Then maybe
just maybe

though the spectacle of the earth
spinning in its atmosphere,
and the wonder of stars
s c a t t e r e d across the vacuum
clinging to each other
with strands of gravity,
would spark emotions impossible to speculate on
I would be thinking
‘I flew to the MOON on a ROCKET’
And would have smiles from top to toe.

Do not do things to be happy
Do them to DO them and then BE
And sometimes you will be happy.