Happy

People tell me

I’m good in a crisis

That’s, like, something they say

As, like, a compliment to me

That I’m good

In an emergency situation

But when they talk about

Uh, something about me that--

That they don’t like

Or that they think

Is a weakness

What always comes up

Is that I can’t seem to, uh

Uh, stay happy?

Or that, uh, if I’m happy

I always act like--

Oh, it’s not going to last

LIke, I can’t, I don’t know

Live in the moment

Or something?

That I’m always

Expecting the worst

But what I find funny about that

Is that, in my mind

They’re connected

Like, the reason I’m good in a crisis

Is because I’m always expecting the worst

Isn’t that obvious?
Shouldn’t that be obvious?

I mean, if I was going around

Happy all the time

And just, like, thinking

It was going to be that way forever

That means that when something bad happens

I’m screwed

Because I didn’t see it coming

Whereas, the way I am now

The, you know, cynical pragmatic me

Is never really surprised when bad stuff happens

Because I’m always like--

Yeah, that’s about what I’d expected

So it’s not that I have some great bravery

Or anything

When it comes to me, you know

Dealing with bad situations

It’s just that I’m, uh, prepared

It's just that it doesn’t, uh,

Take me by surprise

And so I feel like

We should encourage, you know

People to kind of--

Understand that happiness

Is just another feeling

That it’s something that’s not supposed to, uh

Go on and on forever

You know what people are like--

The kind of people who, uh

Think they’re going to be happy forever?

They do stupid shit

To end the happiness

Because, it’s like, we’re humans

We get bored

We get bored

With just about anything
No matter what it is

Even happiness!

So, like, guys with happy families

And loving wives

And kids

They get a divorce

And get a toupee

And marry someone young enough

To be their granddaughter

And it’s because, I think,

They were happy

And they thought they were always going to be happy

And they, like, couldn’t take it

Like, they couldn’t bear

The thought of that--

Of, like, any feeling
Going on and on forever

So they, like, took their lives

And--Kaboom!

If we just told people that, like--

Look, you’re happy now

But you won’t be forever

So just, like, chill out

And wait for it to go away

Because then!

--And I think, even, maybe--

Only then

Can we ever be happy

And be happy

About being happy

That's what I think

I mean, for what it’s worth?

That’s my take on it