Happy in That I Am Not Over-Happy

I was flipping through an old New Yorker, reading idly about Alec Baldwin. The big theme of the profile was that despite everything he has, he isn't happy. I got tired of the article, because I'm just not very interested in celebrities' lives generally, and actors in particular. I don't much care what actors think and feel; I mostly care about what they're pretending to think and feel when I'm watching them.

Anyway, I tossed the magazine aside and thought about how I'm actually managing to be pretty happy without Alec Baldwin's money and without very much of my own either. And then I thought maybe Alec Baldwin ought to be reading about me. I was on a fishing trip once and one guy was brooding because he hadn't caught this one species he was after and one morning another guy said, "Why the long face? Wouldja rather be working?" I'd like to commend that same thought to any unhappy celebrities reading this.