In an age of "recipes for happiness," where everyone seems to compete to show how grateful they are for life's gifts, where we must be the creators of our own existence, where everything depends simply on us and our willingness to connect with the vibrational energy of the universe, some people may be a little perplexed. The feeling is that we're so busy trying to become what the world wants us to be that we've forgotten who we are. And so, amid all this glossy gratitude, some people remain undeterred and perhaps decide to practice genuine ingratitude, just to take a dip in reality, to observe with irony, levity, and mercy the splendid fallibility of all human beings, because even the best make mistakes, and when they do, we're happy.