“Karma, are you happy?” “Looking back at my life, I find that the answer is yes. I have achieved happiness because I don’t have unrealistic expectations.” This strikes me as an odd explanation. In America, high expectations are the engines that drive us, the gas in our tanks, the force behind our dreams and, by extension, our pursuit of happiness. “My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself is a struggle, and if I’m satisfied, if I have just done that, lived well, in the evening I sigh and say, ‘It was okay.’ ”
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