Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun overpainful happiness. They can dine out ever they want and sleep as late as they want. Coupleswith infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or a three-day vacation. I dont knowany parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of themost liberating realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote morehours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying thatnew car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seemspointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich andglamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much funactually may not be happy at all.
1. Which of the following is true?
A. Fun creates long-lasting satisfaction.
B. Fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness.
C. Happiness is enduring whereas fun is short-lived.
D. Fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness.
2. To the author, Hollywood stars all have an important role to play that is to __.
A. rite memoir after memoir about their happiness.
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