"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody."
- Chinese Proverb

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Happiness is that thing which everyone seeks and few people can find. People spend their entire lives aiming for what they believe will make them happy, but their hunt is interrupted by care and selfishness. They do not realize that the only way to gain happiness is to have someone else give it to you. And they will search to the ends of the earth in search of it, only to learn this truth.
But when they reach that edge they find that they are not willing to jump off of it, just to make others happy.
I knew, deep down, from the beginning of my hunt, that I could achieve happiness if I gave up the search; if I let myself go in order to gift happiness to another. It took me a long while to admit that I knew; but I did.
I am called Sommer Kelley, but at the time of my hatching my name was Etain. I was born above, where no human ever goes. The humans call it heaven; we angels knew it simply as Home. My journey began when I was cast out of Home. I fell to Earth, and lost all memories of my life above. At the start, my search was only for my past, not for happiness.
I am lucky. Many people set out alone, in the search for truth... for happiness. But I have friends to aid me on my way. Friends I would give anything to protect... anything to make happy.
They are the only reason that I can be happy now.