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HAPPINESS:
Is everything going right in your life?
Unless we have structured it with the right ingredients, we’ll feel that
there are too many obstacles. Every time we seem to get going something is
there to pull us back. But where are we going to?
Most people seem to plan a route to happiness via riches; unless you have
the formula correct you’ll fall along the path which ultimately will bring
you misery.
When you decide to GO somewhere make every small step bring happiness,
rather than the happiness being at the end of the rainbow. Or
alternatively alter the perspective and make happiness the goal and if
riches arrive as a consequence you’re cutting out the middle years.
If you ever needed to SELL yourself in your profession, would you approach
that selling from misery or happiness? Proof I may add if you answered
that right, that everything has its route in happiness.
Be happy first and eternal greatness will follow.
Let’s imagine our body posture. If we are slumped in a chair an observer
will correctly assume that your attention span is low and whatever is
trying to capture your interest isn’t succeeding. Yet consider if you were
sat upright and glued with observation, with a face that is bright,
cheerful and attentive; what impression would that give?
Your body posture tells a story, rarely will it be inaccurate and more
importantly it should be a reminder to yourself of what condition your
frame of mind is in.
Today’s story is about a man who has the treasure of life, but fails to
know how to use it. He thinks that the jewels of life are at the opposite
side of the rainbow. He has the happiness should he open his eyes, but the
riches he doesn’t. He does as many people do by putting on his blinkers
and fails to see what he has directly under his nose.
RUNNING FAST AND GOING NOWHERE
One of these days I shall pack up and go back to school. To the easy life.
When I was in it, I hated its repetitive nature. Now that I am out of it,
I am boggled by the ever-changing nature of married, professional life,
its ups-and-downs. They have me drained of all that I used to value so
much, the exuberance, the fun. So one day, I am going to leave my wife and
kid behind and just fly off for a year or so.
I will get my head and my body in order. Will go and sleep with some
pretty chicks too. Drink alcohol too. And be outrageous. Then when I come
back I will fit in better. Will be better adjusted.
Not that there is something significantly wrong with my life right now. It
is just that I feel that it is passing me by, this life. Quickly. Others
seem to have more fun with it. I might look down upon what they get around
to, all the nastiness and narcism. But deep down I guess a part of me also
wants a part of that. I want to go out with vain models and I want to pose
for cameras too. I want to have great energy and hop all over town and in
and out of beds and make people jealous of the way I live. I want to stand
out.
People tell me that I have it good. Do I? Sometimes I wonder, what do
people know. I might be making a buck or so here or there, but these days
success makes me sad. And I find myself often wanting to be alone, sitting
in a puddle of melancholy. I had a better time at college than most, but I
still would like to do it all over again.
Maybe I got married too early. Maybe the kid came along too soon. No, that
can’t be true. Whenever I look into his face, he fills me with such joy.
All the waking up at night to feed him, all the crankiness in the days
after, it doesn’t matter. He is a part of me and I love him madly. Maybe I
will take him along with me to college. Maybe I will.
I don’t think all those girls I’ll go out at college will mind. Chicks
love kids. But then again, they might not. And I can’t have that. Maybe I
will take the missus along. Someone has to look after the kid.
Nah. That sounded callous. Almost makes it seem like I don’t love her. I
do. I think I do. I just don’t feel it anymore. I just don’t know where
all the love went. Drowned in familiarity I guess. It is strange. There
was a time when all I thought that mattered in my life was her and it hurt
me physically not to be with her. Now, I do not hurry home and other women
have started seeming attractive to me. She has gotten a bit heavy since
having the kid; though I always tell her that she hasn’t. Or I tell her
that she is a whole lot of woman. And that I love her. Come to think of
it, I do love her. The thought of me joking around with her has put a
smile on my face.
I think I shall give her a call at home to just say, ‘Hi.’
Y’know, to this day, I have not cheated on her. I have of course thought
about it. All men do; it is only natural. And I sometimes allow myself
that luxury. To think about it. There are several women around who I could
cheat on her with. They sometimes smile back at me too. The ones that seem
easy are fat. Or are just plainly too forward. Can’t have either. Guilt is
heavy. If I got a fat woman on me, I just might stop breathing. And where
would that put me ? Crushed under a fat woman, naked. What would my kid
think?
Erm… I have just looked over the last paragraph to see what I have
written. I must be coming unhinged. A woman can’t crush a man like that.
She can of course break his spirit, but to crush him she would need to be
at least 500 hundred pounds. And I ain’t sure as hell gonna sleep with no
hippo. I ain’t that desperate as yet.
Guess the only way out of this situation then is to go abroad. To study.
Or maybe even emigrate. The only problem with leaving here is that I would
also have to take most of what is here with me as well.
Khair, that’s enough for now. Got some work to do. And I think I’ll make
that call to my wife as well.
(Mohammad Qayyum)
QUOTE: “It’s impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.”
(Dr. Howard Murphy)
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HAPPINESS:
Happiness can be the result of forgetting.
Emotional highs and lows use up our energy and ability to remember. We forget
how to be happy.
Today’s story explains how easy it is to forget, but at the same time how
valuable it is to remember.
The story is about a speech, cleverly written to express a point. Be assured
that the writer was happy during its composure. If some anxiety or anger would
have occurred whilst writing this clever speech, we would have never felt the
expressive gratitude given to the VALUE of good friends.
A CENSORSHIP-FREE GRADUATION
The following salutatorian speech was delivered by the author at the June 7,
2002 graduation ceremony of Hollidaysburg Area High School. The text was
initially censored by school officials because of its religious content. The
school later allowed the author to deliver her remarks un-censored after being
contacted by Liberty Counsel, a public interest legal group. The uncensored
speech is presented here.
I don't know about all of you, but I definitely don't feel old enough to be
standing here today. I maintain that I am really an eight year-old somehow
trapped in the body of an eighteen year-old.
But, in the past few weeks, I've really started to think about what I have done
in my life, and I am slowly coming to the realization that a lot has transpired
in my seemingly few eighteen years. Time seems to have flown past without me,
though I possess a mind full of memories that indicate otherwise.
If I try as hard as I can, I am able to pull up some memories as far back as
kindergarten, though this is quite a chore, as most of those memories have been
crowded out by derivatives, the structure of DNA, and the format for a diction
paragraph.
But once I dig through to those early years, I begin to understand how far I
have come. I've gone from being unable to even write my own name to being able
to understand (supposedly) college level calculus and live for a month in
Germany. My repertoire has expanded greatly, and, looking back, I cannot imagine
how I accomplished everything I have.
As pictures from my past cross my mind, I am glad for what I have achieved, but
then I look a little closer and catch a glimpse of something even more amazing
in my life.
Yes, I am blessed to have done all I have to reach this point, but when I look
hard at where I have been, I see how I have arrived here. At that point, I
finally understand that I owe success not to my own efforts, but to the love and
friendship of some truly wonderful people.
Usually they are not on the forefront garnering attention for themselves; no,
they are in the background, doing the things that matter most, the things that
have gotten me where I am today.
They stayed up with me into the wee hours of the morning, discussing all the
things that really matter; they pored through history books, trying to pick out
the information that would surely be on that massive test tomorrow; they were
there to listen to my frustrations when time seemed too short and the work too
long; they gave me advice when I didn't know what to do, yet never pushed me to
do what they thought was right.
More than any of that, though, they taught me how to have fun in life,
regardless of the ugly situations that often present themselves at the most
inopportune of times.
By now you must be wondering who these awesome people are, and to that I answer
that I have been very blessed to call them my friends and family. God, in His
perfect way, has managed to connect me with these people who have shaped my
life, and for that I am forever grateful to Him.
Now, as I prepare to go off to college, the hardest part is not starting a new
chapter, but finishing this one. Those people who have grown so dear to my heart
must now be allowed to go their own ways, and in the case of some, must be left
behind as I move ahead.
But just when I think I can't go through with it all, who should be there,
encouraging me to follow the dreams God has given me, but those dear people, the
same ones I don't want to leave.
I dread these partings that draw nearer by the day, but these people have helped
me understand that there is One who will never leave me or forsake me. He will
stick closer to me than a brother, even when I mess up or even try to run from
Him. He, even more so than the people I love, has been there every day, never
forcing me to do anything, but always encouraging me to stretch my limits and
strive for the best He has to offer.
As we prepare to continue in this journey of our lives, I look back with special
fondness on everything my friends and family have done for me. Through all we
have been through together, I have learned the lessons that will make my life
happier in years to come.
The people God has placed around me are some of life's sweetest blessings, and
my prayer is that God will bless them as much as they have blessed me. I
encourage all of you today to remember those people who have made you who you
are; do not forget to thank them before you leave. They have aided us in
reaching this point where we now stand, and for that they should never be
forgotten.
(Shannon Wray)
QUOTE: “Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it
behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with
love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive
in every thought and deed.”
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CHILDREN:
Cultivate determination in children and it will service them for their whole
life. Make them believe that if they want something to happen they need to put
in some effort.
If they remain with the view that nobody will take any notice and will not help
their quest, all this will do is emanate signs of a lack of determination. Any
living being when confronted with something or someone who is determined admires
their courage and helps all they can.
Today’s story illustrates the determination of a mother, but will the doctors
offer any help when they see this courage and strength of mind?
SMELL THE RAIN
A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the doctor walked
into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from surgery, her
husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news.
That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks
pregnant, to undergo an emergency caesarean to deliver the couple's new
daughter, Danae Lu Blessing. At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound and
nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature. Still, the doctor's
soft words dropped like bombs.
"I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly as he could. "There's
only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by
some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one."
Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the
devastating problems Danae would likely face if she survived. She would never
walk. She would never talk. She would probably be blind. She would certainly be
prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental
retardation. And on and on.
"No! No!" was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-year-old son
Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a
family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away.
Through the dark hours of morning as Danae held onto life by the thinnest
thread, Diana slipped in and out of drugged sleep, growing more and more
determined that their tiny daughter would live and live to be a healthy, happy
young girl. But David, fully awake and listening to additional dire details of
their daughter's chances of ever leaving the hospital alive, much less healthy,
knew he must confront his wife with the inevitable.
"David walked in and said that we needed to talk about making funeral
arrangements," Diana remembers "I felt so bad for him because he was doing
everything, trying to include me in what was going on, but I just wouldn't
listen, I couldn't listen I said, "No, that is not going to happen, no way! I
don't care what the doctors say Danae is not going to die! One day she will be
just fine, and she will be coming home with us!"
As if willed to live by Diana's determination, Danae clung to life hour after
hour, with the help of every medical machine and marvel her miniature body could
endure But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana.
Because Danae's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially "raw," every
lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort- so they couldn't even
cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the strength of their
love. All they could do, as Danae struggled alone beneath the ultra-violet light
in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their
precious little girl.
There was never a moment when Danae suddenly grew stronger. But as weeks went
by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there.
At last, when Danae turned two months old, her parents were able to hold her in
their arms for the very first time. And two months later-though doctors
continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less
living any kind of normal life, were next to zero - Danae went home from the
hospital, just as her mother had predicted.
Today, five years later, Danae is a petite but feisty young girl with glittering
gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She shows no signs, whatsoever, of
any mental or physical impairments. Simply, she is everything a little girl can
be and more-but that happy ending is far from the end of her story.
One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas,
Danae was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ball park
where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing. As always, Danae was
chattering non-stop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when
she suddenly fell silent.
Hugging her arms across her chest, Danae asked, "Do you smell that?" Smelling
the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it
smells like rain." Danae closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"
Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells
like rain."
Still caught in the moment, Danae shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with
her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It smells like
God when you lay your head on His chest."
Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Danae then happily hopped down to play with the
other children before the rains came her daughter's words confirmed what Diana
and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their
hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of
her life when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was
holding Danae on His chest, and it is His loving scent that she remembers so
well.
(Unknown Author)
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ADAPTING TO CHANGE:
I have had a strange week this week, one of which has been several
battles over certain changes. I don’t refer specifically to major changes
in my life, but little events that happen each week and for some
strange reason haven’t been happening this week. As a consequence
of these changes I’ve had to change my routine. This has thrown out
my good sense of equilibrium.
I have practiced for some years to keep changes into check and avoid
them controlling my next action. But inevitably... too many at once and
a sense of confusion arises.
This confusion is allowed to rise as you understand the reason for it.
Adapting to change is not easy to cope with.
This next story has a strange twist. Please read it first and I’ll
elaborate later.
BELIEF!
There was a well-educated man who solemnly announced to his friends
that he would never believe anything which he could not understand.
An old farmer overheard the remark, turned to the young intellectual
and said, "As I went into town today, I passed a field where some
sheep were feeding. Do you believe that?" "Yes," said the young man.
"Not far away from the sheep some cows were also grazing. Do you
believe that?" "Yes," was the reply. "Not far from the cows were some
pigs eating grass. Do you believe that?" "Yes." "All right, now you listen
to this," said the farmer. "The grass the sheep ate turned into wool.
The grass the cows ate turned into milk. The grass the pigs ate turned
into fibre. The grass that the chicken eat turned into feathers. Do you
believe that?" "Yes," the young man said. "Do you understand it?" "No,"
admitted the young man.
"Young man," said the farmer, "if you live long, you will find that there
are a great many things which you believe without understanding.
May I suggest the will of God is one of them."
(by: Bruno Hagspiel, The Millennium Stories by Frank Mihalic)
Of course I would suggest that understanding is half the battle. It is
more of a ‘knowing’ a ‘gut feeling’ that I refer to.
In a practical sense the word understanding is used. However, as we
delve deeper into philosophy and wisdom, you’ll come across the
description that we KNOW rather than understand.
To KNOW is and instant reaction. To try an analyse something beyond
the KNOWING could confuse the issue.
Just sometimes to KNOW is enough, without any explanation needed.
The following quote is so simple it makes me smile every time I read it.
If you find that adapting to change is difficult, bring this quote to
mind.
It isn’t about returning, but changing course.
QUOTE: “Life is always going forward. If you feel you’re going
backwards, just turn around.”
(Eva Gregory)
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