Achieng Onguru

“There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn - or worse, indifference - cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays.

The happy man does not look back. he doesn’t look ahead. he lives in the present. but there’s the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. to find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment.

But if he wants meaning - the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life - a man must reinhabit his past, however uncertain.

Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

What have you chosen: happiness or meaning?

'The interpretation of murder”
― Jed Rubenfeld.

“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.”
― Jane Austen

“I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . .”
― Amilcar Cabral