Too often our happiness is contingent on something in the future. We must remember that happiness is the journey, not the destination. When you are dying you are stripped of all that you are not and exit this earth a spirit. So why not strip yourself of all you are not now, and start living today? The real self within everyone is attractive while phoniness is universally disliked and detested. That is why everyone loves a baby; there is no phoniness, hypocrisy, or superficiality. Children are always happy because they have no concept of time so by default they are in the present moment, which is much too interesting than any distractions. As we grow older we carry emotional baggage and our identity is formed by our past. We can retrain and program our minds by thinking about what we do want and not what we don't want. Our nervous system does not know the difference between what's real and what's imagined so create yourself a great life. We find in the extreme opposite of babies, the elderly, are also uninhibited and true to themselves not caring about the judgement of others. Why not skip the learning curve?Strip yourself of all you are not, be true to yourself, imagine and create an amazing life. Act with certainty and without fear of judgment, and die before you die.