Happy People

The New York Times ran a piece on Thursday (by Roni Caryn Rabin), with an opening that spoke to my soul. Not the content - though I like the content - the way it was expressed. (Maybe it's because I'm going slowly nuts thumping my own book of poems into shape, but I'm seeing gorgeous, startling poetry everywhere lately.) Anyway, this contains what must be one of the shortest (and bluntest) second pararaphs in NYT history. Maybe it needs to be seen in the context of the whole article... maybe to fully appreciate this you need to have read a truly horrible amount of long, windy NYT prose... Now I've built it up way too much, and you'll just scratch your head and think what the heck was he talking about. Ah, I'm just going to quote it and shut up.

"Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds.

That’s what unhappy people do."