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Quote #1200 - #LeastHappyChild
25 Aug, 2025
LEAST HAPPY CHILD
"You are only as happy as your least happy child."
An Old Truism
"If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer. "
Dalai Lama
"All the happiness there is in this world arises from wishing others to be happy, and all the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing ourself alone to be happy."
Shantideva
We are all family, and
so deeply connected that we spread
our feelings, our beliefs,
our behaviors and vocabularies,
like pandemic germs,
like tickling laughter,
invisibly infecting us with their power,
albeit positive, negative,
or some complex combination of the two.
I try harder to take care of my own children, my blood family,
than others'
it's true,
and yet,
how happy can I be--
can any of us be--
when so many children of our country,
of the world,
children of all ages
suffer such horrors--
war, invasion, famine, persecution--
oceans away
and right outside our windows.
I still have joy, pleasure, laughter,
connection, creativity,
nature's bounty and beauty--
but happiness?
That will take fundamental changes,
changes that we continue to struggle towards
but which have actually retrogressed,
(moved forward--yes--then retrogressed)
since Andrew Johnson, since Ronald Reagan,
and now since one of the darkest leaders
our country has known,
a leader who is trying to create the world
in his perverse image,
a kind of medieval-level darkness and evil.
So we all suffer from his maniacal self-interest,
and we must continue to push back,
but also
equally important, my loves,
my marvelous extended family,
to stay connected--
all of us mattering--
all of us care-taking--
all of us trying to move forward--
until the least happy child
can be saved.
Shellen Lubin
August 25, 2025
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