Why do you think it is easier to take care of the happiness of others than to take care of your own? If you give a starving man a steak, he’ll still complain about how it’s cooked. Let him cook his own steak so you can go have that super-meat-combination pizza you've been craving. You can’t save the poor from themselves any more than you can make someone happy that is perfectly content to drown in misery. Let them drown! I suppose I'm old school. Sink or swim. Throw a person that can't swim into the deep end of the pool and see how fast they can self-learn to dog paddle. Having taken a Red Cross lifeguard course, I can tell you that a sure way to drown yourself is to try and rescue someone that's drowning who is going to fight you instead of listening. The only recourse is to punch them square in the face and drag their limp, carcass into shore. They'll probably be drowning at the same time, same place, next week. You just can’t cure stupid.
As usual, this is just my humble opinion and I'm almost positive you have an opinion as well. Don't just wallow in it, make it heard! Do it here with a comment, e-mail, or write a post for me and I'll put it up (as long as it meets my stringent criteria). If you’d like to read the rest of this before forming your own opinion, please follow the attached link: Responsibility for Happiness
