From Philip Stewart, Oxford, UK
When I was a teenager, if anybody asked me, “Are you happy?”, I immediately started thinking of reasons why I wasn’t. The same happened if I asked myself the question. I decided that happiness is the normal state of an active animal; if I got on with what I was doing, the question didn’t arise. I have now been trying for 60 years to live in the present, and I can say I have had a happy life.
