Well, it used to be a warm puppy. But, really, what is happiness today? According to Mother Jones it is no longer the newly born canine. It is “a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, lives in Hawaii, runs his own business and has a household income of more than $120,000 a year.”
Who would have thought? And why do we think that now? Because Gallup asked. "For the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected American adults each day and asked them about their emotional status, work satisfaction, eating habits, illnesses, stress levels and other indicators of their quality of life." (NYTimes.com)
And he is really out there. Alvin Wong. He is a 5-foot-10, 69-year-old, Chinese-American, Kosher-observing Jew, who’s married with children and lives in Honolulu. He runs his own health care management business and earns more than $120,000 a year.
So, we can forget puppies, and warmth, and ice cream sundaes... or any other vision of happiness that comes to mind. Now all we get is Alvin.
Doesn't make me all that Wong-y
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