Too Good To Be True

If something is too good to be true, it usually is. We've all heard this before countless times and yet one always thinks there is the slight chance "too good to be true" will actually pan out. Why? Do we need it to brighten up our otherwise dreary existence? Are we all suckers for a happy ending? Possibly. Perhaps it is the besting of all the nay-sayers that spurs us to reach for the proverbial carrot. Maybe it is our thinking "it could happen" that drives us into the shallow pool of "too good to be true" only to drown. "Why not me?" we ask ourselves as we try to attain what others have dubbed the impossible dream.

Is it so wrong to want these things?

I'm no different than the next man in wanting a little happiness. I have often commiserated with some friends on what seems to be, for the lot of us, the illusive thing called happiness. That is not to say that we are not happy with our day to day lives. No, I'm speaking more of the happiness that comes with one's overall existence. A feeling of happiness in the majority of the areas of your life. Maybe contentment is better word. I don't know. What I see is a group of AMAZING women that somehow overall happiness has eluded. Some of them complain and are very vocal about it, while others are quietly raging against the machine. Others are content to wait for what everyone calls the happy ending, and some have given up on every truly finding it.
I don't know much about the mysteries of the universe. What I do know is that we are entitled to some happiness... On every level! I don't want to go throughout life thinking happiness for me is something that will always be "too good to be true".

When will it be our turn?