I had no hope growing up. Until I met story tellers in fairy tales books from around the world, my only read as a young child. And by reading folk tales from around the world (with beautiful illustrations by different illustrators for each stories in the international folk tales book given by my God mother, Anne Mooney), I understood that there was more to being happy than being stuck in the present. That reading folk tales, could actually, as Lao Tsu always knows, make us travel while staying where we are.