Jonathots Daily Blog
(1978)
For a city, it’s downtown.
A doughnut, the hole.
The earth, the equator.
And a Twinkie, the cream.
Center of things. It’s important stuff.
As I take off tomorrow morning to do my thing at Central United Methodist Church in Muskegon, I realize that the end of my little excursion needs to make clear to this handful of souls what I believe is central, intricate, everlasting and truly necessary.
Honestly, that’s easy.
Happiness.
Any time we stop believing in happiness, refuse to pursue it or think we’ve outgrown the magnitude of its blessing, we paralyze ourselves, with all of our emotions lying dormant and useless.
Life is about the pursuit of happiness. Some may call it idealism, but the lack of happiness should be a fire alarm pulled at the first sign of smoke.
Enough said. How do we get happiness? Just remember this little four-step process: don’t expect, don’t reject, don’t worry, do more.
That’s it:
- Expectation turns us into brats, waiting for a reason to throw a fit.
- Rejection makes us critics who have already written the review before seeing the play.
- Worry makes us comical because we’re not energetic enough to participate and always have “egg on our face” when the omelet actually flips over and is perfect.
- And doing more, although it seems to be futile at times, is the best way to stay busy while we’re waiting for today’s tragedy to become yesterday’s little piece of silliness.
Central is happiness.
It keeps us from becoming so grown-up that we lose our childhood dreams.
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