I’m working on the Basic Theory of Faucets and Happiness.

So far it states “How happy you are is inversely proportional to the number of water valves in your direct control.”

This is because the number of water valves in your life is a fairly good analog of the complexity of your life.” Water valves have about a ten year life. If you a responsible for twenty valves you will have to fix two per year.

Sprinkler valves might count double.

Sprinkler heads all add to the total count.

Water features, pools and ponds all add to the total.

How can you decrease your water valve count and therefore increase your happiness? Perhaps by getting them out of your direct control. But this then gets you into the household help corollary to the basic theory.

Life is complicated.