Introduction If you do not know, when or where your next smile is coming from perhaps this will help.The average person desperately tries, but cannot trust Happiness, because it just does not last. Merriment it seems, comes and goes with a purpose all its own, and leaves the joyful person to pay the bill. Then sometimes, there are the dire consequences of being, much too happy. One must try to consider the side effects of Glee, which are about the same as, not ever having been happy at all. No wonder some of us shuffle through life with a slumping, awkward gait.Alas, Barg Simpson let someone see him smile once too often. That started his slide into an alternative reality. The reality of knowing his next smile might be his last. This is his struggle to avoid happiness. Could he change, or learn to accept, the state of the world as it really is. Or will he hang onto the idea that the world is the wonderful place, the way he wants it to be.