How much do we really need to be happy?
Michael was reading a few news headlines to me last night...celebrities, athletes, politicians....huge amounts of money, fame, prestige, power...affairs, drugs, abuse.
It's sad to look at our country and see how badly many people are handling what they've been given. I think children are far better at living a successful life. They find value in the simple things....
For Katelyn it's the flower petals falling off the beautiful cherry blossom tree outside the church...
...it's blowing bubbles, stomping in puddles, digging in the dirt....
....it's a lollipop, a trip to McDonald's for a 49 cent ice cream cone, a couple of M & M's after dinner....
....it's a box to play in, a balloon to run around with. It's being spun in circles and dancing to music in the car. It's curling up with mommy to read a book or singing her favorite few songs before bed.The world would be a different place if we learned how to live by watching the children around us.
I've learned how to live more simply...how to enjoy what I have because I work with kids everyday and they've help put into perspective for me what really matters.
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So, I admit it, I catch John Tesh's radio show every now and again. A thread on it has been happiness. Research shows that money can't buy happiness; at best you can use it to buy time with your loved ones-- time with them leads to happiness. I think he said that it's something like $20,000 above the poverty line that is the limit beyond which any more money does not help. And there's research that says we have a baseline happiness, and that after huge events-- from serious grief to winning the lottery, after a year, we go back to that baseline happiness.
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