People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

Psychology__ service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a __austian bargain._ In this case, the price paid has been the American Psychological Association__ collective silence, ethical __umbing,_ and, over time, historical amnesia. 3 Indeed, Lifton emphasizes that __he Nazis were not the only ones to involve doctors in evil_; in defense of this argument, he cites the Cold War __ole of _American physicians and psychologists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency_for unethical medical and psychological experiments involving drugs and mind manipulation._ 4

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another__ side.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.