While I could with ease describe impossible scenarios in which I am a multibillionaire living on the Champs Elysées or perhaps Mars, I believe happiness is not a dream consigned to the future but is embedded in an ordinary day, if one only has the strength to look. However, the "greener grass hypothesis" blinds many people to the joy at their fingertips. They live in the days after graduation or once they leave home or get a "real" job or some other point in time, which does not actually exist. Humanity is presently more prosperous than it has ever been in all of history. However, each advance in science leaves us still one step away from happiness and like the turtle in Zeno's paradox, the closer we get the farther away we are. Each new thing produced by man makes it clear that man's happiness is not to come from things at all. Just as drugs promise joy to the user and bring only misery, so too the things that clutter our lives bring only new disappointments. It seems the wanting is so much greater than the having, that it is better to never know what one is missing than to live in waiting in the nebulous future. In my own life, I have found I only find peace when I sacrifice it. By doing what I disdain I find that which I seek. Truly, "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. (Luke 9:24 NIV)" Therefore, my perfect day would be a day almost like any other. The difference would be the way I tackled the challenges of that day, and the way I used the time given to me. The difference would be the smile on my face and the spring in my step. The difference would be how I treat others, even those I dislike. Yes, the difference would be me.