And you have to laugh, at least this is what I hear people tell me.
You have to laugh because otherwise, what’s the alternative?
Misery? What else is there?
Resentment?
In other words, perhaps there’s a choice to make here –
happiness or misery?
Which one do you choose?
We all know about misery and how misery loves company.
So you laugh or at least you try.
You laugh because what else can you do?
I am a working man. I have been on both sides of the collar. To make this a bit more clear, I have worked both white and blue collar jobs. I have dressed in suits and uniforms. I have traveled for work. I have been contracted. I have been on both the fair and unfair sides of the working world. Yes, I can understand the grief which comes when you open up your paycheck and see how much the government partners with us and unfairly I might add. So yes, I pay my taxes too. And then some.
I have been known to be busy enough to run into myself at the door. I have fit the description of what it means to burn the candle at both ends. I’ve spread myself too thin. I have seen the ups and downs of personal and financial problems.
So yes, I am a very real person.
I think that before we move forward, it pays for us to look back and see where happiness began.
Where does this come from? Does this begin with our youth?
Think about it.
Did happiness begin when we learned songs in nursery school?
Remember?
And so –
Today is a new day. The sun might not be shining right now. But that doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there.
Right?
Of course, it’s there. We know it is.
And, of course, today is a new day.
Of course . . .
But life?
Hey. life is happening.
Always.
There comes a time when we turn a corner. Life evolves as it always does.
There comes a time when we look back and realize where we’ve been and where we’ve come from.
And then we look at where we are, as oppose to where we were – and then suddenly, we’re not so bad.
We have overcome more than we could possibly consider.
And I think that’s great.
So, you want to know what makes the world tick, do you?
You want to know what’s in the sauce? Or better yet, you want to know the secret handshake that gets you through the door.
Of course, you do. Who doesn’t?
Everyone wants to be in on the secret. Everyone wants the answers to the test.
Of course we do. We all want to know how to pull a trick and we all want to know a shortcut or maybe two.
We are moving closer to the colder time of the year and that’s fine. The autumn seemed to come on quickly and it’s almost gone now – as if the autumn left like a breeze and ready or not, here it comes . . . Wintertime –
The holiday season, Christmas, the New Year will be here sooner than we think.
Soon –
There will be a new chapter and perhaps there will be new players in our life. There will be new ideas and new chances to take. There will be new opportunities that will take place and if we allow them to, these opportunities are the doors that will open because other doors shut.
That’s the thing about life. There’s so much going on at once.
There are the basic things and good things and scary things and unsure things.
We have mysteries. We have questions. We have worries and unsolvable riddles.
We have thoughts and concerns, notions and curiosities and suspicions.
Life, right?
This is it.
This is us.
Live and in-person.
There is something I have come to understand about myself.
I am someone that needs a project. I need work. I need something to focus on and plan for because otherwise, the mind can wander and thoughts can drift. I give myself projects because the projects have value and the value improves my worth.
Understand?
I have lived long enough to know and understand the things that either help me or hurt me.
As I see it, whatever we do in life either brings us one step closer to our goals or this pushes us further away.
And no one knows what they’ll do or say.
Nobody knows how they will truly react until it’s real or until life is happening and it’s all live and in-person. This is what comes down when life is face-to-face and happening.
It’s not a dream or a thought anymore.
It’s not a fear or a fantasy.
No, this is life.
No one knows what it’s like to pull the trigger, so-to-speak.
Until they have to.
And life….
Crazy, isn’t it?
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