Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut. American author (1922–2007)
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'.
True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that your high school class is running the country.