Eating the Cookie

Happiness was "having the cookie."
If you had the cookie, things were good.
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a
damn.
Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
Some of the time it was money, sometimes power,
sometimes sex.
At other times, it was the new car, the biggest
contract, the most prestigious address.

When you give someone a cookie, he is happy.
If you take the cookie away or it breaks, that
someone will be unhappy.
It will takeyou too long to understand that the
cookie will never make that someone happy for
long.
The minute you have the cookie it starts to
crumble or you start to worry about it crumbling or
about someone trying to take it away from you.
You know, you have to give up a lot of things to
take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling
and be sure that no one takes it away from you.
You may not even get a chance to eat it because
you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
Having the cookie is not what life is about."

What's important?
What is really important?
Well, life is important.
Life.
Life any way you can have it.
Life with the cookie.
Life without the cookie.
Happiness does not have anything to do with the
cookie, it has to do with being alive.

"Damn, I guess life is the cookie."