Happiness is that long term statin drug use reduces heart attack and stroke incidence

Reported here:

In 2016, in a major review in the Lancet, they concluded that lowering cholesterol over five years with a cheap daily statin would prevent 1,000 heart attacks, strokes and coronary artery bypasses among 10,000 people who had already had one. It would also prevent 500 in people who were at increased risk, for instance because of high blood pressure or diabetes.

Happiness is the sight of you

Go, gentle gales, and bear my sighs along!
The birds shall cease to tune their evening song,
The winds to breathe, the waving woods to move,
And streams to murmur, ere I cease to love.
Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain,
Not balmy sleep to labourers faint with pain,

Not showers to larks, or sunshine to the bee,

Are half so charming as thy sight to me.

-- Alexander Pope, Autumn

Happiness is sometimes wet

Like silver coins the wet leaves gleam,

as rays of sun o'ercome the rain;

But quickly alter back to green,

as showers win the fight again.

So are my happi-nesses mine,

brief victories invading time.

-- Johnny

Happiness is inseparable love

Our two souls therefore, which are one,

   Though I must go, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion.

   Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so

   As stiff twin compasses are two:

Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show

   To move, but doth, if the other do;

And though it in the center sit,

   Yet when the other far doth roam,

It leans, and hearkens after it,

   And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,

   Like the other foot, obliquely run;

Thy firmness makes my circle just,

   And makes me end where I begun.

-- John Donne

Happiness is frequently old

 

Old truths, old laws, old boots, old books, and old friends are the best.

-- An old Polish proverb, often repeated by Russell Amos Kirk, the sage of Mecosta

Happiness is a Kitty Kegger

Happiness is Lefas Kalamata olive oil from Greece

The 3-liter can is only $19.99 at Russo's in Grand Rapids.