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When the world tells you your out.

Despite popular opinion to the contrary, what brings a person happiness depends on who you are and where you are. You could be in an airport, all the signs say this way to Alabama, people are going to Alabama, they are following the signs. Some are walking to the exit gate, some are running. Some stop for a nice snack or a meal along the way in an airport restaurant, some busily run to the gate with all their belongings forgetting that the have forgotten their tickets at home. Everyone wants to go there, but only some actually end up there. How is that possible? Ask the porter at the door: Jane: "Dear Porter, I have all this luggage that I need to be delivered to terminal two...I am going to Alabama!" Porter: "Yes mam, sure thing, but there is something you should know. There are no flights heading out of this air port going to Alabama tonight. They are all cancelled." Jane: "Yes, but don't you see I have family there. And they are expecting me. Surely