Thought and Poem

Thought and Poem – October 29, 2014

We live in a world where we want to be entertained, where we want what we want when we want it....most times right now, and in the process of getting what we wanted, we have lost track of what being satisfied is all about and how to find true happiness.

Remember back in the days where you received an allowance, in my case of fifty cents a week and you had to actually save your money if there was something you wanted to buy or something special you wanted to do. Allowances were earned and not like today where parents fork over money to their children on demand. We did extra chores to raise funds and when you had enough to get what you worked for you first sat down to weigh the cost of spending your money. In the end when you made your decision, you felt good, you learned something about yourself and what you could do and you ended up happy?

Somehow down through the years of modern development in technology and because the next generation tries to make life “easier” for their young ones, we have lost the important things that help us to make good decisions such as patience, meditating on pros and cons, or weighing out the lasting value of what we want over that of what we are going to receive where we will eventually end up full of joy and happy.

We have also lost touch of the true meaning of happiness when we think we will only achieve happiness if we buy something or go somewhere special at a large cost. What ever happened to the satisfaction and happiness we gleaned from doing things for others or when giving of ourselves?

What about you? Do you think we are teaching the real value of happiness and how it is achieved to the next generation or do you think the gift of giving will be lost forever by the “I want is now” idealism? Share your thoughts with us…Jeanne Claire Probst

Happiness

You will never find happiness unless you go looking for “it,”

And you really do not have to look too far to find “it.”

“It” can be right under our noses, yet at times we fail to see,

That finding any happiness begins with us, individually.

“There is more happiness in giving,” I have read,

And these words, I have heard is true when they have said,

“A giver of gifts from the heart,”

“Is pretty much how gaining happiness starts.”

So when you are depressed, and lonely and are feeling “poor me,”

Look around you and tell me what you see?

Is there someone you know that needs a friend?

How about knocking at their door, they might let you come in.

And when you see their smiles and the twinkle in their eyes,

The evidence before you will make you realize,

That happiness is not something money can buy; I know this to be true

Happiness is attained by doing little things for others and giving the love you have inside you.

Jeanne Claire Probst