Lilith would one day find love again, on a two way street but lost it on a lonely highway, something’s lost and something’s gained then lost again, on and on, and so it goes, and she did find happiness, but not necessarily happiness as narrowly defined, but rather because happiness is not the result of bouncing from one joy to the next, instead involving times of considerable discomfort. Genetic makeup, life circumstances, achievements, marital status, social relationships, and neighbors and co-workers, even the roads and highways you drive on, the planes you fly on, the buses you ride on, the shoes that you try on, the waves that you surf on, the subways that you sleep on, and the teams that you bet on, influence how happy you are. Or can be. So do individual ways of thinking and expressi
