The worst time of day is just before you go to bed. It's when you feel the day has been for nothing. The purpose of time has been simply to survive its passing. You climb the stairs defeated. And there is little prospect of tomorrow being any different.
The joke is I'm on a platform in a week discussing the nature of happiness. At the moment, that's a bit like asking a vegan be an expert on the perfect filet mignon. Luckily, I'm sharing a stage with someone who seems to know rather a lot about happiness. The motion – "happiness comes from having more" – is being proposed by Francis Boulle from TV's Made in Chelsea. Judging by the OMGs from my teenage girls, Francis Boulle (gorgeous-looking, rich, clever, nice) has a great deal more of all sorts of things.
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