Achieving Happiness: The journey of life

Life is like a cross-country walk. You'll be on many paths and you'll find yourself at numerous crossroads. It's at these crossroads you'll make the decisions that will determine the direction your life will take. Your happiness hinges on how well these choices work out, and how you handle it when they don't turn out as well as you'd hoped.

Some paths end up taking you deep into the woods, where it's easy to get lost in the thick foliage. A few paths take you on a steep uphill climb above the timberline where you're able to gain great perspective, but at the cost of having had an enormous struggle up...