It feels like a betrayal – even self-sabotage – to admit that all I want is to be happy. Happiness can’t be quantified like a salary. Its value stretches across a broad spectrum because it’s subjective and different for everyone. It would make for a poor school reunion to declare, in the presence of my peers who have undoubtedly carved out careers as doctors, solicitors, marketing executives and engineers, that I was simply happy.

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