Cheeriness

It’s a slim volume and a lot of the guidance is stuff that we know already: talking, making friends, listening (to those friends and what they tell you), cultivating intimacy and being playful are a short cut to cheeriness.

Egyptians often talk about his charity work, his professionalism and his seemingly constant optimism and cheeriness and point to him as a rare bright spot in their country.

We hover between cheeriness and chaos, or derring-do dreams and quiet desperation.