Wholey: Are You Happy?

Are most people happy? Dennis Wholey, author of Are You Happy? reports that according to expert opinion, perhaps only 20 percent of Americans are happy. Those experts would probably agree with the wry definition of happiness offered by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz who said, “Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now it is usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.” (Our Daily Bread, October 11, 1994).