I love my jogging. This Saturday morning, nice and early about 7.15am, I put on my jogging stuff, limbered up and jogged out the gate and up the road heading for the club (only about a 15 minute jog). I love to jog because it clears my head, I leave my weekday work pressures behind and I get all kinds of ideas in my head that connect the important dots in my life together.
When I got to the club all nice and sweaty, I changed to my trunks, had a shower, stood by the deep end of the empty pool and dived in. Sheer blisssssss
As I swam slowly on my back through the water, admiring the early morning blue sky and thanking God for my life (always very important) I realized that there are certain things in life that however much money you may or may not make, you will not want to change. For me, whatever else may or may not change going forward in my life, I pray that there will always be a place for my jog and swim. Truly a blessing consisting of good health, availability of time and the means to enjoy it all (not everyone has the legs for a jog or the water to drink, not to mention swim in or even the good health to do either).
I think that If you can pick out the things in your life that give you happiness, things that will not change in your life even if you become a billionaire (for me, playing with the kids, time with my wife, my jog and a swim, thorntons toffee, a good cup of coffee, reading a good book, travel etc etc etc) and if you can do these things a bit more often and do a bit less of the things that remove happiness from your life then you won’t need to be a billionaire because you will already have the richness and blessings of life. Now that is the true meaning of happiness.
That’s my word of wisdom for the month.
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The most simple things in life can make a man happy. Money is useful but it aint everything.
We are a product of many things, our thoughts our values. All impacted by upbringing, schooling, our neighbourhood as a child and as an adult, superstitions, traditions, beliefs, culture or lack of, friendships or lack of, parenting and once again the lack of.......
Heres an extreme to provoke thought...
A man (Mr A) provides for his family, has the respect of his peers, never goes hungry knows no ill health and grows old gracefully.
A man (Mr B) provides for his family (if he decided to have one), wants and lacks nothing (he perceives he needs), does not know hunger or poverty, has reached the top of his profession, his peers want to be him or at least have a taste of his (ample) pie.
Both Mr A and Mr B are happy ?... Mr A is a chief in a village deep in the Amazon; Mr B lives in Suburbia with 2 cars on his drive in a detached house and a tennis court accessible via his back door
Happiness is relative
What definitions of self can you relate too
Glad you had time to relax. Its refreshing to know that in a culture of money money money (not saying money is bad or one should not be successful) that you can appreciate ans still stay steadfast in your convictions.
@Teejay
Very good comparison.
Stay blessed people.
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