Fomtoolery

I’m afraid of squandering the tools I have been given and earned by chasing “happiness” and still ending up unhappy.

Maybe the secret is that you are most likely to find happiness (however you define it) by putting those very tools to use. The tools and the happiness are both means to their own ends.

This idea could be thickheadedly obvious but, like a memorable nightmare, it felt powerful and sharp like a new blade when it bumbled into my thoughts and then sliced right through them.