"For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness." Andy Rooney
Dear Andy Rooney. I do miss him and his simple wise folksy wisdom.
Happy Joy Day! Love, Jamie xo
The late Jane Kenyon wrote a BEAUTIFUL, tear-provoking poem about this called “Otherwise”: http://loc.gov/poetry/180/050.html
I remember hours spent in surgical intensive care in ’73 waiting to find out if my dad was going to survive his heart-bypass surgery — he did — and feeling this intense ENVY of people — hospital staff, visitors to non-SICU patients, people coming & going on the street outside — doing just normal, mundane, everyday things, and wondering “Do they know how LUCKY they are?”
https://beguineagain.com/skeptics-heaven/
Jim
There’s also a sequel: https://beguineagain.com/a-skeptics-heaven-the-sequel/
There’s also a sequel: https://beguineagain.com/a-skeptics-heaven-the-sequel/
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We have been program to want and not be happy. So we have to learn all over again to be happy. Nice quote to share.