After some deliberation, I have decided that it is much better to be happy now, as I am now, and as the person I am now... than to try to live up to my supposed potential, and maybe be just as happy.

There's no guarantee that I'd be happier if I forgo what I have now that makes me happy for the pursuit of supposed greater character development, as a completely independent and unattached, perhaps also lonely, individual.

Only if/when I start to feel truly unhappy will I force myself off my couch of comfort, warmth, and laziness, in front of the TV, close to the those right there beside me who I care a lot about... and who care right back at me.

Me. The person I am now. Not "lesser" me. Not the me I could become. Just this me.

HAPPY me.