Sunday Morning on the Planet: If This Isn’t Nice…

"I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He was my father’s kid
brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest
life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And
his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so
seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking
lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, or talking lazily
about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would
suddenly exclaim, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is." So I do
the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please
notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some
point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’"

– Kurt Vonnegut

(HT: The Mississippi Project)