The Sun Wolf
In a retelling of a wise Cherokee fable, Grandmother, the village peacemaker, has helped two adults resolve a fiery dispute. Now it’s evening and the children gather around Grandmother. The tension of the day still in their bodies.
“Grandmother, but why did they fight?” asks one child, eyes sharp.
“Well, imagine,” Grandmother begins. Her voice has the cadence of a story about to unfold.
What happened to the subject of happiness in the media and entertainment sphere? You hardly hear about it.
Instead, you get hammered every day with another fiery fight, though you wouldn’t know it’s a fight.
To everyone’s intense frustration, everyone is being gaslit. The story of an impending cataclysm is handled as if it were one more news item, one more exciting entertainment, not something you need to be running out into the street to stop.
With all that, how is happiness even possible anymore? Is that why the once-popular pursuit of happiness has been replaced with live your best life? It’s a good fit, though. If the world is going to end for humans, making the most of every day holds special appeal.
The idea of what happiness is differs from culture to culture. And from person to person.
