摘要
我们苦苦追寻的，其实就在我们身边。一天，我问哥哥伊恩：“你感到幸福吗？”他回答说：“可以说幸福，也可以说不幸福，这要看你指什么了。”“那你告诉我，”我说，“最近一次你感到幸福是什么时候？“1967年4月。”他答道。向一个游戏人生的人提问这么严肃的问题，我真是自讨苦吃。但是伊恩的话启发了我，当我们考虑幸福的时候，我们通常想到一些不同寻常的事情和愉快无比的时刻，而随着年龄的增长，这种时刻是越来越少。
day. We chase after it, when it is waiting all about us. ＂Are you happy？＂l asked my brother, Lan, one Yes. No. It depends what you mean,＂ he said. Then tell me,＂ I said, ＂when was the last time you think you were happy？ ＂ April 1967,＂ he said. It served me right for putting a serious question to someone who has joked his way through life. But Lan＇s answer reminded me that when we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordi- nary, a moment of completely delight and those moments seem to get rarer the older we get.
