For the sake of symmetry (the theme did not fit with the days of the week because of the abrupt pause last week), and also because there are so many fun cases to choose between, here’s a number VI.
Born Tara Leigh Patrick, you can probably guess by her taken name who she decided to live happily ever after with in an early life. Yes, the guy with the raspberry beret – Prince. Auditioning for his record label in 1994, she passed the audition both for a solo album and a twosome life with the artist who would eventually be formerly known as Prince. It lasted until the turn of the year. That’s when Prince morphed into another one of many characters to come and Carmen evolved into a TV star, running on beaches and singling people out on MTV.
A new life and a new outlook on the future, Carmen decided to live happily ever after with cross-dressing NBA star Dennis Rodman. They married in Las Vegas, and you know what that means. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, so the couple got divorced within three months.
By now, she had transformed into a movie star and foreseeing a future on the silver screen, she found the perfect partner for a happily ever after life in guitarist Dave Navarro. They married and started their first mutual limelight project, the MTV reality show with the fitting name Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave.Which, evidently, was also their last and only mutual project. Three years after they met, they were divorced.
Around this time, Carmen began commissioning the Naked Women’s Wrestling League, and with this new life in focus, she pursued legendary female rocker Joan Jett. Though hoping to marry and live happily ever after, Carmen never got that far with Joan.
The latest gossip suggests she has just got engaged with Rob Patterson of rock band Korn, tattooing his monogram R behind her ear in anticipation of the exchange of rings.
Does all this suggest that Carmen is a fickle person? Once again, no, she is just like the rest of us. That is, if the rest of us changed careers and outlooks on the future every second year (which is actually what statistics suggest we do, career switching has increased by up to 1,000 percent in the last ten years) and had access to a world of attractive potential partners (which the world of any is now allowing us).
Does it suggest that Carmen cannot find happiness? No, it just means that she finds many shorter “happinesses” instead of one ever-lasting. Who’s to say that one is better than the other? And you can probably guess where we are all heading…

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So, what’s your take on the happiest guy on earth, The Dalai Lama?
I dont know MD, apparently the secret to a happy marriage is to be annoying:
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/419637
(article from the Toronto Star)
Micke,
A very good question. Let’s make that the subject of tomorrow’s post!
Erik,
How could I have missed the Toronto Star… I love it that you are so well connected with the world’s media reports, and that you connect the dots to this humble blog! I like the study finding, I’ll have to hunt down the entire study report.
Clearly, happily-ever-after is not the key. Maybe we should have a annoying-ever-after theme next time…
emvehå,
MD