Growing up a witness, you dont have anything to compare that kind of life to, except that when you accept the real possibility that its NOT the "truth", thats when my
eyes began to open. Slowly I began to see that happiness really is the way you feel about life. It is contentment and goals in THIS life, not some distant future paradise. The society toots its horn often about how witnesses are the happiest people on earth. And I believed this! I thought that was real happiness, now Im finding out that as I get further and further away, Im coming alive inside. The society doesnt want its members to know this or realize it. They tell them that thats not the "real life" they tell them that "worldly" people arent truly happy, that they cannot be truly happy because they dont have the "truth". Its all a big fat LIE.