Will we be ever happy?
Not unless we are ever so lucky.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• Happy as a clam, at a clam bake.
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
• I’d be happy if I knew the answer.
Edward P Wolfers, Austinmer, NSW, Australia
• Americans are the only ones who are constitutionally allowed to pursue happiness. For the rest of us contentment is the best we can hope for.
Frans Bieber, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Probably not, but contentment is easier and more sustainable.
Margaret Wilkes, Perth, Western Australia
• Just sing a happy song and whistle a happy tune and the rest falls into place.
Jenefer Warwick James, Paddington, NSW, Australia
• Don’t know about you, but I’m ecstatic.
Marilyn Hamilton, Perth, Western Australia
• The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others happy.
Derek Malpass, Hohenthann, Germany
• Who are “we”?
Lorna Kaino, Perth, Western Australia
• Depends on one’s expectations.
Jamie Etherington, Ellinbank, Victoria, Australia
I am in the middle of one!
Which fantasy land would you like to live in, and why?
Being an optimist of simple tastes, I would be content with the fantasy land that Candide created, where things are even better than they seem, in my “best of all possible worlds”.
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
• The never-never-alas land where politics is for the benefit of the people and not the politicians.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US
• As I do live in fantasy land at the moment I can tell you it is not a place to long for.
Doreen Forney, Pownal, Vermont, US
• At my time of life, any cloud-cuckoo-land where the accommodation offers full pension.
Anthony Walter, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
• If only the current lunacy were a fantasy land.
Margaret Wyeth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Any in which I get to be the hero that always saves the day.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• I don’t know about like, but I’m living in one. As Alice said: “I used to read fairytales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened and now here I am in the middle of one!”
Rhys Winterburn, Perth, Western Australia
• Narnia, so I could learn from wise Aslan or brave little Reepicheep.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• I’m quite content in my own.
Jim Dewar, Gosford, NSW, Australia
They obviously aren’t Swiss
Why are some people always late?
I can’t answer that now. Can I have a month or so?
Bryan Smith, Sweaburg, Ontario, Canada
• They fear dead time if they’re early. That’s why I carry a Guardian Weekly with me when I go to my GP or my barber.
John Standingford, Adelaide, South Australia
• Because they are not Swiss.
David Ross, Thoiry, France
Any answers?
Can suffering ennoble us?
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
What is the biggest tip you’ve ever given anyone?
Rhys Winterburn, Perth, Western Australia
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