Healthy Living

I hate Oprah, but she occasionally has good advice. Her mantra about living your best life really got under my skin. I mean, why are we (usually Americans) so high and mighty we think we should quit jobs, move, divorce, or alter essential details of our lives in order to find happiness? We are lucky to have a job, friends, a house, and food on the table. Millions of people find happiness schlepping mud and eating rice. But Oprah preaches from her white leather couch that we are all entitled to Utopian happiness. I hated it, at first.

Then I realized I hated her message because I was miserable in my job. I hated school, my house, car, work, co-workers, boyfriend, body, social life, and on and on. So I quit. I took what America gave me - a chance for a cheap education and tons of opportunities (even if for a while that opportunity was collecting unemployment) and I went out to find my utopia.

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