Photo of Missouri
June 11, 2002
"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date"....Dale Carnegie.
As everyone in my life knows I tried finding happiness for years!!! I have a hard time changing things in my life....I tend to ride along with whatever is happening. It's a good thing I don't know any gangsters :-) I see there is hope however, I "usually" wake up at some point and see that as much as other people in my life care....it is up to me. And when I do make a change, I always have their support....that's love and friendship :-)
The following is taken from Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook....
"Anyone who, out of goodness of his heart, speaks a helpful word, gives a cheering smile, or smoothes over a rough place in another's path knows that the delight he feels is so intimate a part of himself that he lives by it. The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further--what joy is there like unto it? If those who seek happiness would only stop one little minute and think, they would see that the delights they really experience are as countless as the grasses at their feet or the dewdrops sparkling upon the morning flowers"....Helen Keller.
Happiness truly seems to exist in the simple things of life....as the saying goes "take time to smell the roses." For so long I looked elsewhere for happiness....and then I realized as the quotes say it is within me. I planted flowers this past month with my mom and nieces and nephew. There is nothing like simply listening as little kids experience things. The worms were "ugh" while the slugs were "interesting" and the roly-polys??? Well, they were "friends" thanks to the little show about Roly-poly-oly. To me they are pretty much all "ugh"!!! But later this summer the hummingbirds will come to feed right by our porch....at night. They are sooo beautiful and sooo brave. Seeing them makes all the hard work of planting well worth while. And doing the task with the kids is a learning experience for me as well as them :-) As Abe Lincoln said "We are as happy as we make up our minds to be." And as Nathaniel Hawthorne said "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
song playing....The Lion Sleeps Tonight