The Happiness Tax

What if every time you laughed, you lost a memory. Not the big ones at first.

Just tiny fragments. The smell of your grandmother's kitchen. Your best friend's middle name.

Scientists discovered it in 2019 when comedians started forgetting their own jokes.

Now we face an impossible choice. Live in joyless silence, preserving every

moment we've ever lived. Or laugh freely, becoming strangers to our own past.

Some people haven't smiled in years. Others giggle themselves into oblivion daily. The happiness tax,

they call it. Your brain trading yesterday for today.