Making Happiness Happen.

Experience is the principal of interest, as Expectancy is the essence of Adventure. Hence the thrill of anticipation which accompanies the advent of each New Year! What does it hold? A change of fortune, a streak of luck, prosperity, tranquility, opportunity, happiness? In any case we believe it holds Happiness, because the best way to get Happiness is to make Happiness happen. This should be the most resolute of all New Year resolutions. It is one that covers all. It is a resolution with more than the triumphant transience of ice-cream and acid drops, which provide melting moments with but fleeting flavour. Such resolutions are delusions— a narcotic for keeping the Conscience comatose. They are made on the make-and-break principle.

Such resolutions come and go
Like a fall of summer snow;
None can say and none can know
How they come or why they go.
At the best they merely bring
Temporary whitening
To the conscience, once a year,
Coming but to disappear
quickly, and in every case

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Leaving not the slightest trace.
If you'd catch Ill-Fortune nappin',
Cause your happiness to happen: