Happiness Now
4 min readNov 16, 2019
Really. You can choose happiness
One early morning, during her annual visit to Hong Kong, my mother had a massive stroke alone in her bed. She laid there, eyes wide with terror, unable to move, gurgling and rasping for help until her friend in the next room found her. My mother, who once arrived at my future place of employment — the corporate headquarters of Reebok International Inc. — unannounced, demanding to see the CEO and chairman…