At this moment I’m currently fifteen to twenty pounds overweight. My career has stalled out. In fact, I don’t even have a full time job anymore for the first time in years. The car I drive is almost ten years old. By today’s standards of society, I should be somewhat miserable. But I have found it is quite the opposite. In fact, this is the happiest I’ve ever been.

I didn’t purposefully seek out this kind of happiness. Rather I kind of stumbled into it if you will. I’ve found that when I did pursue happiness, I rarely found it. Or if I did find it, it was only for a small amount of time. That kind of happiness was fleeting.

It makes me wonder if we have things all wrong; or at least mixed up. In our society we often pursue materialistic items, only...

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