The Unhappy Nation. A Story. By Mike Finnerty.

Luke 18:8 NIV I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

The Unhappy Nation.

It was their desire to be perfect, but we all know that this is impossible in this life. So the next question on the agenda was "What makes you happy?" Just then a grumpy old man appeared and said "I don't believe that happiness exists!" This was the lie that the nation bought into, that happiness didn't exist anymore. They tried to build a society where everything was accepted, their reasoning was if the majority was happy then there would be a minority that would be unhappy, and to the majority that was acceptable, and that is how they all would be happy. What no one could ever foresee was that the unhappiness of even one person in their utopian society would affect the happiness of the majority.

So they were at a loss as to what to do. If one person was causing the unhappiness of the nation, then the answer would be to defeat the minority. In defeating the one person's happiness, they made themselves terribly unhappy as a result. So they learned that to make yourself happy as the result or consequence of someone else's happiness, they could never reach their utopian goal. A wise man once said that to make yourself happy, you have to put your own happiness aside, in fact you have to completely deny yourself any right to be happy. I'm not sure who said this.

This unhappy nation tried to put their own happiness first, instead of thinking of the poor and the needy, and as a result for doing this, their own happiness was taken out away from them. No one really stole the unhappy nation's happiness, they let it slowly fade out into Oblivion. The End. This is Mike.

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