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I'm Gretchen Ribin and this is a little happier. In my study of happiness and human nature,

I'm always striving to identify fundamental principles. For instance, I identified the

eight splendid truths of happiness. And the first splendid truth is to be happier,

we have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right in an atmosphere of growth.

The first splendid truth accounts for a paradox that I notice within happiness.

Sometimes happiness doesn't make us feel happy. Now, this is the kind of aphorism that a

scientist couldn't say, but I can say happiness doesn't always make us feel happy.

I was reminded of this paradox during a conversation with a friend. Are you going to your mother's house

for Thanksgiving? I asked, are you looking forward to it? I'm visiting my mom, he said, but I am not

looking forward to it. I'll be doing all the work because no one else in my family can be relied

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