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What Is Life? What Is Happiness? by Alla P. Gakuba, BSCE, MAS, PhD, the trilogy.This is Book 1 in the trilogy: motivational nonfiction short stories to teach logic, creativity, new skills, and self-esteem that would change readers lives. Some inspiration for her trilogy, the author took from ancient Greek methodology. Where the ancient Greeks, to teach people common sense, creativity, and new skills used conversations between gods or between animals. Author intention is noble. It is her obligation to write this book to share and pass on to other people--and especially to younger generations--her wisdom, information, knowledge, creativity, and skills that she learned and accumulated by working and living on 3 different continents, working in the engineering profession, learning from her extensive education, reading numerous books, seeing plays and movies, meeting and working with hundreds of people of different nationalities, gleaning knowledge from mentors, experiencing life threatening events, facing monumental problems, and from living in several countries and visited many. In this book, Alla P. Gakuba expertly outlines the importance of understanding who are you, where to channel your energy, our mind is a tape recorder, how to believe in yourself, what is life, what is quality of life, and what is happiness. Life is unpredictable. How someone's life develops seems beyond someone's control, as multiple factors influence and direct life. Not happiness...Happiness seems to be predictable and can even be designed. One can observe how a child bursts into a happy smile many times a day, or adults jumping into the air upon hearing some joyous news. A man is sitting on a bench in a park soaking in the wa