Houston H. Haynes

It is an act of self-betrayal to confuse the pursuit of goals with the pursuit of happiness. In the day-to-day they can become blurred and one might mistakenly believe them to be synonymous. And certainly their coincident arrival can be enough to fool the most sober of us into seeing them as conjoined twins. But lose sight of their distinction and both become maddeningly elusive. One can also be lead down the false path of choosing between them. If they seem to be in opposition to one another, then it invariably was an earlier false choice that led to the current juxtaposition.  It takes courage to go back and find that fateful point and grapple with those oft-competing desires. And while it risks arriving at some disquieting truth, once resolved it fosters an unmistakable sense of inner peace.