Wait just a minute. Let me get this straight. You want me to get in this car, you close the doors and we travel to somewhere else? But, why? Have we run out of food here? I don’t get it?
Everyone was so excited about taking a ride in the car. Everyone but me. I wasn’t so comfortable with this whole car ride thing.
I am perfectly happy right here, catching snowflakes on my tongue.
We never had a bar in any of our other houses. We have wanted one for years. My Aunt and Uncle had one in their house, and after that first visit – we have wanted one ever since. They lived in a modest home, nothing special about it at all, just a plain vanilla house….
Remember the movie Tombstone when Doc Holliday tells Johnny Ringo, “I’ll be your Huckleberry”? Were you as confused as I was – What the heck is a Huckleberry? Over the years, I must have watched this show half a dozen times before I looked it up. It means – the perfect person for the job.
Being a Huckleberry is an honor. Unless you would rather not do the job and like so many, you find it difficult to say no.
I don’t think it is a coincidence that the older I get the happier I become. My life is simple and I am grateful for the life I live. But I believe there is more to it.
Learning to create your own happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. Most of my experiences have come from the “School of Hard Knocks”. Today I am sharing some tips I have learned along the way.
Most couples go to dinner or see a movie for entertainment. We create and build stuff. It is how we spend our free time. We get dressed in our finest paint stained clothes and begin our latest creation. As crazy as it sounds – it is our entertainment! It is our drug. And we are both addicted!