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Good afternoon, sir. Could we stop you to ask you a question?
What’s the question? Are you happy? I’m very happy.

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What makes you happy? Everything around.
Mm-hmm. Do you think that’s what happiness is

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being aware of the nice things around? Oh, sure.
Do you think everybody is as happy as you are?

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No, I’m sure they’re not. Oil
conditions, poverty, the ration.

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Do these touch any of, any way touch your
life at all, that’s why you’re happy?

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Well, I don’t think I
have those conditions.

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So freedom… Nice family,
nice wife, nice children.

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Don’t you think there are people though with…
with those conditions that are happy. Oh, sure.

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They… I’m sure their conditions aren’t the
same as mine and you seem to be happy.

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Yes, I am. Yes, I am too.
Of course your life too…

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your religion and this makes you happy.
I’m sure everybody couldn’t do it.

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Do you… Do you feel you have to
devote your life to something to…

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to make you happy? Family. Family.

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Dedication I think can make one happy. Oh,
yes, definitely. I’m sure you think that too.

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Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
You are welcome.

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Where my stomach bees. I’ll be there
when I’m happy. You feel happiness?

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And could you tell us what seems to make you
feel that happiness? I don’t know exactly

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(inaudible) in a way that you see me. If
we came along we could never find you sad.

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Uh-huh. Never. What seems
to make you so happy?

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Everything we may and somebody really
making me… I just… I try to avoid them.

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Do you think avoiding people helps in your
occupation, can you really do that? Yes, we are.

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(inaudible)whole lot, keep you out of
trouble. But people help make you happy,

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do you think sometimes? Sometimes they
will and then sometimes they won’t.

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So… So you just find that your key…

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(inaudible) fellow, all day you see him
standing (inaudible) and not saying.

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That’s we have it. What would
make you happier do you think?

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Well, I’ll never think about nothing evil.

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So happy thoughts. If you think something
evil, you get mad and you look…

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And everybody look at you,
you’re still mad. (inaudible)

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You can’t tell them nothing
because I don’t know.

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So, that’s my idea about it.
No, I can’t say I’m too happy.

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I couldn’t say that really. Could
you tell us why or what makes…

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What makes me happy? Mm-hmm.
What would make you happy.

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Well, there are three big things that make a person
happy or responsible for happiness, it’s the sex,

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social life, umm… what’s the other uh…

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your work. And then somehow or other you… we
wind up being thwarted in one degree or another

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and one of these things. I guess, you know, according to the
formula that’s what’s responsible for my own happiness,

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little things make me happy.
Sleeping late, things like that,

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nothing more complicated than that. Are you
looking for something to make you happier. Yes.

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Where… where would you begin your search, let’s say, or
do you just, it’s something that’s just going to happen.

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I look to people. People
are the only variables

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it seems in the whole life environment, and in the
things that are most important are the people,

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nobody means much by themselves.
So I look to other people.

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If someone came up to the street, as we have
done to you and said to you, are you happy?

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How would you answer? I’m happy in my
work, in my personal life, not really.

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Do you seem, you that you can
forget your personal life in work?

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Yes, I enjoy my work very much.
Because it’s uh…

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very rare that you find a person with the education
that I have doing heating in air conditioning work.

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Because I graduated from DePaul
University in 1966, February 10th.

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And now I go out to get my
hands dirty, but I enjoy it.

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I have nine men and my own shop.

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So there’s… there’s personal satisfaction in
it. Was the job your choice or circumstances?

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Circumstances, but now it’s my choice.

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What would make you happier?
What would make me happier?

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Well, to build a business, that’s about it.
Uh… my personal life is

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something that had to be, has
to be rectified by myself

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and it takes a long rationalization
and uh… things have to be done,

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things have to be straightened out.
And I doubt if anyone can

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really achieve total happiness because,
it’s a practical impossibility,

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there’s always has to be something
wrong, because it’s just not life.

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There’s… there’s no such thing as perfect.
Thank you very much,

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it was nice talking this afternoon.

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Well, I guess being married and having a child
and doing something I know is constructive.

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You mean in rearing the child?

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Yeah, you know, through making a house, cooking
and cleansing, which I enjoy seeing people.

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So you’d sort of say it’s being useful?
Yeah, definitely.

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What would make you happier? Oh, I think I’d
be happier if the war in Vietnam were over,

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and that if the people I saw outside
the window were better off.

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Well, we just wanted to say, are you happy.
Very. What makes you happy?

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For one thing, you. And how is that?
People.

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Because we’re sisters or just because
we’re people? No, because you are people.

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I’m a non-Catholic but I say that you were

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born a human being first.

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But by choice you became nuns. What would
make umm… that’s an interesting thought.

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What does it depend on?
Well, if I was (inaudible).

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Uh… What kind of a mood are you in today.

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Happy mood. What do you
think cause the happy mood?

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I don’t know. Just comes and goes hmm?

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What would make you more happy?
Umm… I don’t know.

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You can’t think of anything right now. Can you
think of something that would make you sad?

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Yeah. School.

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You don’t like school? Why not?
Well, I just don’t like it.

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You don’t like the work or
don’t like the teachers?

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Well, I like some of the
teachers but not all.

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What do you think will make
you happier as you get older?

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I guess having kids or something like that.

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Thank you.

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Umm… We’re asking this afternoon
one simple question to people,

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are you happy? Gosh, what a question.

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Uh… Well, in what context?

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Am I professionally happy or am I personally
happy? Let’s take up. Am I religiously happy.

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Do they all go together for you or now… no?
For sort of state of…

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No, they don’t go together. I’m, you know,

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professionally… professionally dissatisfied I could,
because I want to do better, personally I’m…I’m happy,

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I’d like to have… I’d like
to have peace in Vietnam.

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In that sense I’m unhappy.
But, you know, I can’t.

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How can you ask a person to… to throw
everything in to one category?

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Do you think that’s unfair? No, I think it’s
an, I don’t think it’s an unfair question,

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I think it’s an irrelevant question.

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Well, we’re trying to see what makes people happy,
you know, some of those things are the things

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that make you unhappy and success in
one phase would make you happier.

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I don’t know, I don’t want to quibble, I
don’t want to pick nits, but I think it’s…

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it’s very difficult to uh… You know,
when I wake up in the morning

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and read a paper and uh… I
don’t know Senator Hartke

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makes sense on Vietnam then
I, you know, I really,

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I feel the… I feel… Do you feel happier or you
feel pleased, or is there a difference or…

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In that… in that regard what Hartke says,

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it’s an intellectual
happiness and pleasure.

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Is happiness something that you’re
searching for in life? No, no.

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Satisfaction may be, I’ll use that word.

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Happiness is a word like
conformity, like togetherness,

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I shy away from… I try not to… What about
happiness in relation to other people?

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[sil.]

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Oh, again I would use the word pleasure. I
just, you know, happiness has become such a…

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such a societal word. You know, if
people say happiness is a warm puppy,

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happiness is a… is a… is a blanket and

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happiness is far too complicated
subject to… to bandy around.

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So I, you know…

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Keep it as something special not trivial.
Yeah. It’s very important

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and… and consequently very hard to define. Do
you think that’s why you’re not seeking it?

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[sil.]

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Perhaps, perhaps.

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I don’t know, maybe I’ve… Probably I need any
help. What makes you happy? We like raspberries,

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we pick raspberries wild. Oh.
You said, do you sow them.

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No we just (inaudible). I bought some.
Did you? Frozen ones.

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What makes you unhappy?
I knew that was coming.

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I like prettiness (inaudible).

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(inaudible). (inaudible) brutal.

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She… she is right, very rude and very, very
callous to the people she was working with

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and to the customers too, small people,
small mines, that’s the only thing in me.

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Are you interested in people?
I teach, so I have to be.

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I like them, I like people.
Do you think people

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have anything to do with happiness.
Yes, they do affect.

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What kind of a question is that?

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People have some… You can’t
have happiness without people.

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Thank you. We’re just umm…

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working on umm… interviewing people and their reactions
to a question such as this film about people.

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Are you happy? Fairly.

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I’m a sociologist and I
work for an organization

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that’s asked a number of time on national samples this
question, \"Are people happy?\" And I’m glad to report

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that most people say they’re fairly happy.
And you feel

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you would report that same way.
Oh, yeah. Fairly happy or…

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Yeah. I have a cold at the moment so I
can’t do. What would make you more happy?

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If the situation in Vietnam changed,
that disturbs me a great deal.

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And I don’t like what our
government is doing there. So…

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If thought… If you were going to put something as
against happiness, what would you put happiness versus…

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It’s boredomness, one

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and just not having things go well. It’s another…
it depends on the context, But I think that…

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I mean, generally speaking I think, you can have
a unhappy feelings but still be in good shape,

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because you’re reacting to something that anybody
would feel unhappy about, like if you have a

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death of a relative or something. So I
wouldn’t necessarily put unhappiness

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as opposed to the general sort of happiness.
And that you can be generally unhappy

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when you can’t feel those sort of things,
something like that. Why you’re asking?

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What make you happier? Being home.
For good, you mean?

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Well, no, just to get home. Where is your home?
In Virginia. Oh, then you’re far away from it.

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Yes, ma’am. What about you? Well, if I was
out of boot camp and I had a regular job.

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I didn’t have to take so many orders.
I mean, you know,

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just to get into the fleet.
To have my own position.

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Right now I’m just a boot camper, but (inaudible).
And just getting off the base is a lot of fun,

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it’s a great thrill. I’ll just
be able to walk around free.

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Okay, thank you very much.

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[sil.] Could we just ask
you, are you happy?

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Yes, of course. What makes you happy?
Living.

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Do you think most people in the
same circumstances are happy?

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In my circumstances? Living, do you think
living is what makes people happy?

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Well, I think it’s probably the one value they
understand that they are certainly, yes. We asked you,

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you… you answered, you know, right away, yeah. Yes,
of course why do you… Why do you feel you did that?

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Because I believed what I said.
Do you think often,

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you know, whether or not you were happy? No, I don’t think
about whether or not I’m happy, it’s a generalized condition.

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Obviously, as all human beings I
have moments of disappointment,

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but if you mean in the generic sense,
in a logical philosophical sense,

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no, I never ask myself that. I take that for
granted. If I didn’t, I may cut my throat.

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I would umm… . Do you ever
strive to become happier?

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Strive to become happier. Consciously? Yes.

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No, no, I don’t. Do you feel everyone is…

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Do you feel the majority of people are happy or unhappy.
Oh, I have no way of telling, I think it’s probably

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connected a great deal to multifaceted
cultural economic factors.

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I should imagine it must be
very hard to be happy if you’re

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economically deprived or socially humiliated.
I suppose a large percentage of the world is,

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but I… who could has an
opinion quantitatively.

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What are some of the uh… economic deprivations that
you think would cause unhappiness, you mentioned…

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That economic deprivation, being without…
being without some subsistence level

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and that varies from culture to culture
depending upon what it is that you see.

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In other words uh… from country to country,

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or culture to culture, there’s a certain level of
expectation and that’s generated by the culture.

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So I don’t think it’s an absolute that
you’d say, takes $40.83 cents a week.

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In some countries, in Yugoslavia, where the
tradition of a peasantry and great deprivation,

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it doesn’t take as much quantitatively to make
people happy as it does say in our country.

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Where the mass media and the
general cultural phenomenon

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make our level of expectations higher. I’m simply
being descriptive, not moralistic about it.

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Thank you very much.

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[sil.]

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Are you happy? I believe I am, yes.

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It’s rather difficult to define.
But I think I am.

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Are you happy, Chris? Yes. At least
today anyway. I’m happy today.

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May be he tears tomorrow which
is probably the story of his…

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So may I ask what this is for?
It’s a taping of,

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you know, what you’re saying that goes with the film, which is kind
of interviewing people and asking them the question, \"Are you happy?\"

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and getting their reaction. I imagine
you get a variety of answers.

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We do, we do. Umm… What would you
say, you know, makes you happy.

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Well, I’m working hard at the
profession that I enjoy.

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I have a family, three small
boys and a loving wife

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and they provide a lot of problems to over
come and that’s part of happiness too.

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I enjoy watching them grow.
I enjoy solving problems.

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I would be a lot happier if we
had more peace in the world,

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more peace at home or justice.

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We don’t seem to have a
lot of that these days.

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But the reasons remain unhappy (inaudible)
those things that do outside of me,

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you know, I’ll tie it to my immediate circle. What
would be some of those reasons, do you think?

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Well, the war in Vietnam
is just a symptom of a…

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of a total problem that cause me a great
deal of concern and it seems very difficult

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to be completely happy or… or
really happy when so much of the

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world is… is plunged in
misery and… and distress.

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Thank you for talking to us.
You’re welcome.

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[sil.]

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Good afternoon. Are you happy?

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Uh… No, I’m miserable.

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What makes you miserable this afternoon?
Is that a truthful answer?

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No, it’s not. Could you answer
it for us honestly? Am I happy?

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Umm… No, I can’t say that I’m happy.

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Why do you qualify it? Well, sometimes
I’m happy and sometimes I’m not.

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This afternoon, in this atmosphere
what feeling does that give you?

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I feel preoccupied. With what?

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Well, people in the pictures.
How about you, you happy? Yes.

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Yes. I think your statement
that when I’m not happy…

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I’m not unhappy is interesting, could you go on
with that a little more. When I’m not happy,

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I’m not… when I’m not happy, I’m not
necessarily unhappy. Well, I’m…

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I’m not usually unhappy but umm… if
happiness is a very positive thing

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and a very strong thing then that doesn’t occur too often and I
would… I would sort of say that real happiness is a kind of joy.

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And that is a kind of a peak moment and
I don’t experience that very often.

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Could you ask this gentleman
here for us, \"Are you happy?\"

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And let him answer in his
own… [non-English narration]

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He answered yes. Would
you ask this gentlemen.

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[non-English narration]

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She said, she’s very happy but she has
everything that life would possibly offer her,

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a good husband and fine children.

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Thank you very much, sir.
Mm-hmm. Thank you.

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Hello, sister. Could we talk to
you for a minute this afternoon?

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Yes. Are you happy. Yes, I’m very happy. If I
wasn’t happy, I wouldn’t be where I am right now

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and that’s in religious life.
Umm… Do you think although

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we certainly would agree with you there.

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What circumstances seem to change happiness for
you? I think it’s when you’re not accepted

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by people of your own age.
When you don’t… when you…

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When there’s certain lack of security due to
immaturity. I think that this stage of my life anyway,

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that’s why I wouldn’t be
happy, because of problems

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or something of that sort, could be
resolved through growing in maturity.

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What do you think causes unhappiness
in people? I think uh…,

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I don’t know. I think a joy
comes in knowing Christ for me

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and I think somebody, if someone’s searching
and they can’t seem to find the answer

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to what they want, they are unhappy. I
think it’s… Unhappiness is a broader thing

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than just uh… problems, small problems
of everyday life, goes beyond that.

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Well, thank you very much, Sister.

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May I ask you a question?

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Certainly. Are you happy?
Am I happy? Very, yes.

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Can we ask you?

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I’m sharing a lot of things with a person

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that I like to be with very
much and that makes me happy.

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Why am I happy?

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I think it’s in a
contentment of many facets,

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it’s a personal understanding
of myself, where I’m going

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and searching for

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the aspects of life that will mature
me and enrich my understanding of it

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and a constant sense of
self involvement I think,

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makes you happy, I think. Self
involvement with people or with…

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With the world? With people? Umm…
communicating with things that make you

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a stronger person and have a wealthier
spiritually, wealthier person.

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I think that’s involvement. It’s not… it’s
not just a physical doing of something,

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it’s… it’s much more involved, you know.

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What would make you unhappy do you think?

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You want a frank answer? Yes.
To be separated from her

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would make me unhappy. It’s biased.

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Oh, a third world war. You know,
our pictures being taken by now.

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Does that bother you, that your pictures being taken? Like
one candid camera. Is this, are we going to appear on TV.

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No. What makes you unhappy?
What a question.

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You see, it’s interesting
because today I’m very happy

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but tomorrow at the same time I
may be unhappy say caused by uh…

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incidents over which I have no
control, you see. I know what I want.

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I didn’t know that always, you see. This is
something which I required a little lately.

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Uh…You know, well, uh…

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Let’s put it this way. I’ve been searching for
something for a long time, I didn’t know what it was,

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I think I found it now. I’m not 100% sure.

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I mean I couldn’t guarantee you that in 10
years from now, I’ll feel the same way,

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but the thing is right now I’m happy
whereas I was say a year ago,

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I wasn’t and I knew…

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Well, umm… happiness comes in degrees.

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I think of, it’s very personal. A lot of
it depends on your family, your childhood.

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I think it’s very important, I can
feel exceptionally happy home

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and it keeps me happy. Most
of the time I have like,

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just moment or an hour or an incident.
But basically,

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umm… the uncontentment is consistent with me and I
contributed to an enormous amount of love in my family.

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And a close understanding
of me as an individual

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and I came from a big family, and I thought
this was a key, very, very important.

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You see, in your case, you
had a child… childhood

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and you can go back to that, you see. I
didn’t have a happy childhood, so that

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I cannot draw memories, I cannot because
I didn’t have one. I was in Europe

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during the war, separated from my parents at
an early age, so that I’ve been on my own uh…

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well, ever since… And just
robbed of that… that youth.

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I was robbed of I think the most precious gift,
the love of parents for children, for a child.

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And I didn’t have that you
see, and that’s… that’s

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a great difference, it makes a great difference I
think. Well, sure, we enjoyed to talking to you.

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Thank you very much. Well, it’s pleasure talking to
you. Thank you. Good bye, sisters. Good bye now.

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[sil.]

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Excuse me, good afternoon. Good afternoon.
Are you happy?

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Well, I could be happier.
What… Why do you say that?

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Well, because I guess everyone
has sense that they don’t,

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you know, you haven’t resolved and I guess
I have some. What would be some things

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that would make you happier? Uh… Being,

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you know, being able to relate to people
and being able to give a lot I find.

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And I find that people don’t always,
you know, it’s wanted or expected,

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you know, they can put up a barrier
and I’m having to kind of, you know,

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find a way to make myself

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sort of fit in, you know. If you’re
comfortable? Someone told me the other day that

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I needed someone that
would want me, you know,

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that would need me and I
think that’s probably true.

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Are you happy? Yes, very happy. Yes,
it’s interesting that you should turn

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the question around to us. Yes,
I’m very happy. You… you said…

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Do you feel it is unusual? Well,
I… I think if you fulfilled,

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I guess you are happy and if you know what
you want, and if you’ve got what you want

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then you should be happy. But… You
feel most people are unhappy?

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I don’t think so, I think there are a
lot of people that are very, you know,

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they have what they need. And I think they accept what
they don’t, suppose what’s occurred in your life but,

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you know, gives you a feeling
of… of having not gotten

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what you really need or what you
really want, not being fulfilled.

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You’re still searching for
this to fulfill your need?

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Yes, I think everybody really
is but some people are content,

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you know. But… Would you say that
you’re not a content person.

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Well, right now I’m not but I am at times,

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I was yesterday. But I found
it goes one day, you have,

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you know, you find more security
than the day before. So it’s… it’s…

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I always try to go through the
next day and I’m just going ahead.

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What type of work do you do? I
am in music, I’m a musician.

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So I play in the orchestra and I’m here now
with an opera company that is touring.

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And we’re playing tonight in
Evans, Illinois. So I am in music,

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you know, and that is a very
uh… introspective field and,

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you know, it’s a very, it is
an art and I find that it is…

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Life is an art and everything is related.
So I find myself

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very involved in trying to make it
all what I would have like it to be.

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Thank you very much. Thank you very much,
I’m glad you asked me, I don’t know why,

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but I appreciate it. Well, thank you.

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[music]

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What I’d like to ask you in this
last session is uh… what you learned

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from your experience? Well, if I may begin,

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I think I learned first of all
that people really are open

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and really do want to have an opportunity to express
themselves if you show an interest to them.

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I think I’d first say that, I learned that
people really are interesting for one,

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and secondly I think it has little bit to do
what Sister Campion said. But I think even on a

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stronger element the idea
of the fact that how much…

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What you really have to do in order to let
someone else really say something to you.

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How much attention you have to give to what they’re saying and
how much thought you have to give to what you’re saying to them.

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And that if you really do that and if they
sense that you are really interested,

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they will umm… say something that
is of value to them. But that…

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but that… If it’s just a commentary, you know, I ask you
this question, you give me the answer. If they sense…

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they don’t sense a real interest there, then they
will never tell you what really has meaning to them.

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And I think I learned that in… in the… Like in the
interviews let’s say, we’d say, didn’t work out,

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it was more of a question of not ever being able
really to communicate for some reason or another.

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Do you have anything else to say or
actually ended with the ceremony?

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Is there anything else you would like to say.
I’d like to say that I’ve enjoyed it very much

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and that it really has been enriching
experience just for myself. Yes, and that

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we’re very grateful to be part of it.
Thank you very much.

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Thank you. Impossible.

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[music]