Is there anyone happier than Amou Haji?

Amou Haji is 80 years old, has no permanent home, no job, no family, no money, and his only possession is an old metal pipe which he uses to smoke animal poop. He hasn’t bathed in more than 60 years. He lives on a diet of rotting porcupine meat.

And Amou Haji is completely content with his life. He wants and needs nothing other than the occasional cigarette when he gets tired of smoking animal poop. Given that he is active and in perfect health despite his years, that he envies no one, harms no one, and asks nothing other than to be left to enjoy his solitary existence, it seems to me that he may be the happiest man alive.

Do you think he’s “mentally ill,” like someone else on Fluther says? Would you “cure” him of his happy, satisfied, and harmless life?

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca