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Post by fkaJimmySee on Sept 8, 2020 10:19:40 GMT -5
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.”
― John Lennon
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Sept 8, 2020 10:39:07 GMT -5
I thought happiness is a warm gun, mama?
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Post by gato on Sept 8, 2020 10:53:12 GMT -5
The problem with the attribution seems to be, that wherever the statement appears with the Beatle making the quote, it just says, "John Lennon" with no date or source listed. Plus, in the British school system of Lennon's period, they weren't given "assignments". "Then there’s the matter of the phrase 'I didn’t understand the assignment' - the word 'assignment' is very much an Americanism. Even if this 'assignment”'was given to young John at a later period in his school career, it’s hard to imagine a post-War Liverpool teacher giving the kids 'assignments'. Still, it does sound like something John would have written in class, just to get out of the work of writing a tiresome essay. www.radiox.co.uk/artists/john-lennon/truth-behind-john-lennon-happy-quote/ |
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Post by squarewave on Sept 8, 2020 11:18:34 GMT -5
Thought provoking; however, I would use the word "joy" instead of "happiness", as the key to (a great) life.
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Post by HenryJ on Sept 8, 2020 12:05:05 GMT -5
Most of the crowd I run with would agree with squarewave.
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