“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”—John Lennon
It’s hard to argue with John Lennon. Unfortunately, he didn’t live long enough for us to know whether his thinking would have evolved from his opinion about happiness to the idea that humans are built to find meaning—to answer the big questions about why we’re here.
Stay tuned for more on this topic. Chapter X is filled with the heart and soul of John Lennon…Imagine, Starting Over, Stand By Me and more. Time to crank up your Spotify account and bask in the memories…
