The inner workings of a thingy on a stick.

There's this book called The Tipping Point that is entirely dedicated to the study of fads. If people knew what made things so popular and what could suddenly trigger an entire city to generally get along nicer, no one can really tell.

Did you know that, statistically, New York is one of the safest cities in the US?

The book goes on to say that, in each of us, are millions upon millions of tipping points, little hairtriggers that will bring about the most drastic changes. Sometimes it's a car accident. Sometimes it's someone we don't know stopping to say hello. Sometimes it's falling in love. Whatever it may be, we are all subject to these triggers in different ways, and as soon as these hotspots are just brushed by the slightest presence, our world changes inside out and upside down.

So when you do reach that tipping point, when, for whatever reason, something happens and you find yourself changing, you can almost hear your mind rearranging itself, and you go through the course of a day feeling distinctly awkward and unsure just to wake up the next morning and find that you'll have togrow new skin all over again, when you find yourself at the brink of a tipping point so drastic, so dramatic, so fantastically new, take the plunge.

Then take the time to reflect on this one question: are you ever going to be happier?

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