"God damn you and your constantly cheery disposition"
Looking around me, I sometimes feel like I'm the happiest person I know. And not in a soma-induced, Brave New World sort of way either. My happiness isn't contingent upon my circumstances, I could have a very shitty day and still be happy. Every once in a while I'll feel crappy, though it generally doesn't have anything to do with circumstances and I let it pass - but those times are few and far between. I'm even happy to have experienced all the shit that I have in my life - my reasoning being that I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for all of that.
Alot of people have a book or movie which they feel you need to have seen or read in order to understand them. For Joe Trippi it's For Love of the Game. For me, it's Nietzsche's semi-autobiographical work Ecce Homo. Although there are a few parts where I don't feel exactly the same way as Nietzsche, alot of it I feel could have just as well been written by me. If you really want to understand me, read Ecce Homo. For this post, I uploaded the preface and two chapters of it, which you can read here.