I'm Brettian Rubin and this is a little happier. Now this is not a happy story, but ever since I

read it, I have not been able to get it out of my head and I think that it does illustrate a very

important point about living a happy life. And this is a story that I read in Judd Apatow's book,

Sick in the Head, Conversations about Life and Comedy, which is a book that's all of his

interviews with famous comedians, which he started doing when he was very, very young. So it's

dozens of comedians talking to Judd Apatow. And in the interview with the legendary James L. Brooks,

Judd Apatow is saying how it was very tough for him when his parents split up in 1984 when he was

13 years old. His mother moved out, which was unusual and that made it more difficult. And Judd

Apatow says about his mother, she had a bit of a mental break after the divorce. She claimed that

she thought she was going to leave and come right back. And my dad immediately moved his girlfriend in.

Right before she died, she told me, I always thought I was going to come right back.

I always thought it was going to be a couple of weeks. And I think it's a good reminder that we have

to be very careful not to assume that we can predict how other people react, especially to big

dramatic gestures. We may have to deal with consequences that we didn't predict.

In the show notes, I'll put a link to the book, Sicken the Head, in case you want to check it out

yourself. I'm Brett Shun Rubin and I hope this makes your week a little happier.