Happiness
Happiness?
Helen Keller once stated, "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." The article "Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets" by, Jack Finny is a perfect example how one can get so wrapped up in his or her life own life of hopes of success and of having the perfect life, one tends to forget those around them are the true providers of happiness. Tom Benecke was a man who thought that he knew what happiness was. When his image to happiness flies out the window, Tom realizes that happiness is only a blink away. Tom Benecke blindness eventually causes him to find his true happiness.
Above Lexington Ave, it was a dark windy night as Tom was working in his office at his eleventh floor apartment. That night was when Tom's blindness allowed him to discover his happiness. Imagine wanting something so bad that you would risk your own life to have it? Tom did exactly that, living......
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