Being Happy

Life is a paradox, one that does not
happily, exclude satisfaction. Not
even when one's native land offers
weather extremes and awkward
geology, with greater familiarity
to Arctic than Melanesian pleasure.
Yet one becomes accustomed to the
familiar and finds comfort in what
has always been. Human nature is
such that one adjusts or one does not
and those who fail to, contribute to
the high suicide rate while those
who do are awarded by a world body
assessing humanity and the clemency
of surroundings the recognition of
being the happiest nation on Earth.
More winter than summer Finland's
culture that of community and soft
comfort in unity and interdependence
where celebrity is absent and modesty
a reflection of a people's choice. A
nation unlike most whose attraction
to migrants is non-existent leaving
ample living and leisure space for all
and a society that institutionalizes its
children in the education system only
when they're more mature and sees no
advantage to homework or tests seems
like perfection from youth to old age.