AM I HAPPY? After reading Rosalie's blog about how wonderful the world is, it made me remember a conversation I had recently. After hearing a friend complain about how unhappy they felt for no good reason, I really got upset. Quite often I'm hearing about the dark night of the soul and how so many people are just unhappy all the time of late. I know they can't help it, but what's up with this? It just snapped into my head how ungrateful it sounded. I didn't mean to, but I turned to my friend and said "Happy? What is happy anyway? Happy is being able to get up everyday and know that I am still breathing and doing it without smelling polluted air. Walking in a body that is healthy.Knowing that no one died today. Knowing that my children are alive and healthy. Having a warm place to sleep. Knowing that I made it through a childhood that would have put most people in an early grave...and surviving it without become a mental case. Knowing that there are not people running down my street with guns. Living in a free country. Opening my refrigerator and having enough food to feed my family. Being able to afford a car that doesn't break down every week. Being able to look out my window and seeing a deer grazing on my lawn. Having clean clothes to wear and shoes on my feet. I take none of this for granted. So am I happy? You bet I am. Every waking moment of every single day! I am glad to be alive and count my blessings...
Susanna Marie