Happiness

A six-panel SMBC comic. A child with flame-like orange hair tells a balding man wearing glasses, "I want to be rich and famous!" The man replies, "Son, those things won't bring you happiness. Money will never stack high enough to reach joy. Fame will never grow vast enough to compass contentedness." The child asks, "Then what will make me happy?" The man answers, "Inborn genetic predisposition to positive affect... which you appear to lack." In the final panels, both are shown in black silhouette: the child asks, "So... the moral is?" and the man concludes, "I think you should be an artist." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the man's smiling face as he adds, "The key is to justify the misery you are naturally unable to overcome!"