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Love, Laugh, and Eat A Good Steak
“Life is short..Live it to the fullest.”
With every passing year I realize just how quickly life is passing by. When you really think about the limited amount of time we have here on earth, you begin to get your priorities in line.
It seems like on a daily basis, so many thing are things vying for our time. There is work, sports, shopping, friends, bills, American idol. Before you know the sun has set on another day and your body says, it’s time for sleep. The next day is more of the same, and then one day rolls into another, and one week melts into a month, and soon another birthday sails by.
After you add up all the things that you just have to do each day, that leaves precious few hours to truly enjoy life. When you think of things in that context I guess you have to ask yourself.. ”Do I work to live…or Live to work”.
When it comes down to it, “the good life” is probably different for each of us. To one person it might be extra time with the family, to another a day out on the boat, perhaps flying kites with your kids, or maybe just a cold beer and Sunday football on T.V. I guess it just boils down to whatever makes you feel happy or fulfilled.
I know that some people search for their whole lives to find that one mystical thing to make them happy. What, is the secret to happiness, they ask? They will search far and wide, and save their money to be able to “afford” this ever elusive source of happiness. Maybe they would find happiness if they could just move to the next city, if they could find that perfect job, or if they could just buy that new car. Yes, perhaps tomorrow will be their lucky day.
No one is totally happy all the time; life just doesn’t work that way. Instead we have to be thankful for every grain of happiness and have something to look back on, or look forward to, on those rainy days. Most of the time we can’t help what happens to us, but we can manage how it affects us.
To some happiness is, and will always be, just out of reach, beckoning to them from around the next corner, or behind the next pay raise or career milestone. I guess to keep score, some people measure happiness in dollars. If money were the measure of happiness then all of those ultra-rich actors and actress wouldn’t be in rehab and would still be married.
In the end I’ve discovered that happiness isn’t something you have to wait for, or search for, in fact it’s usually right there in front of you.
For me, I don’t have to look very hard or travel to far off places. My heart is warmed when I see a mother holding a young baby, and every afternoon when I’m treated to a glorious sunset. Maybe I’m just a Poor Old Italian Boy but for me the love of my family, the ability to have a good laugh, and an occasional great steak, makes me a happy camper. And you know what, it’s true…The best things in life are really free.
Please feel free to contact me at: pooritalianboy@gmail.com
P.I.B.
“Life is short..Live it to the fullest.”
With every passing year I realize just how quickly life is passing by. When you really think about the limited amount of time we have here on earth, you begin to get your priorities in line.
It seems like on a daily basis, so many thing are things vying for our time. There is work, sports, shopping, friends, bills, American idol. Before you know the sun has set on another day and your body says, it’s time for sleep. The next day is more of the same, and then one day rolls into another, and one week melts into a month, and soon another birthday sails by.
After you add up all the things that you just have to do each day, that leaves precious few hours to truly enjoy life. When you think of things in that context I guess you have to ask yourself.. ”Do I work to live…or Live to work”.
When it comes down to it, “the good life” is probably different for each of us. To one person it might be extra time with the family, to another a day out on the boat, perhaps flying kites with your kids, or maybe just a cold beer and Sunday football on T.V. I guess it just boils down to whatever makes you feel happy or fulfilled.
I know that some people search for their whole lives to find that one mystical thing to make them happy. What, is the secret to happiness, they ask? They will search far and wide, and save their money to be able to “afford” this ever elusive source of happiness. Maybe they would find happiness if they could just move to the next city, if they could find that perfect job, or if they could just buy that new car. Yes, perhaps tomorrow will be their lucky day.
No one is totally happy all the time; life just doesn’t work that way. Instead we have to be thankful for every grain of happiness and have something to look back on, or look forward to, on those rainy days. Most of the time we can’t help what happens to us, but we can manage how it affects us.
To some happiness is, and will always be, just out of reach, beckoning to them from around the next corner, or behind the next pay raise or career milestone. I guess to keep score, some people measure happiness in dollars. If money were the measure of happiness then all of those ultra-rich actors and actress wouldn’t be in rehab and would still be married.
In the end I’ve discovered that happiness isn’t something you have to wait for, or search for, in fact it’s usually right there in front of you.
For me, I don’t have to look very hard or travel to far off places. My heart is warmed when I see a mother holding a young baby, and every afternoon when I’m treated to a glorious sunset. Maybe I’m just a Poor Old Italian Boy but for me the love of my family, the ability to have a good laugh, and an occasional great steak, makes me a happy camper. And you know what, it’s true…The best things in life are really free.
Please feel free to contact me at: pooritalianboy@gmail.com
P.I.B.
1 comment:
You know, there is one thing that makes most of the people happier - it's the warmth of sun that you can feel on your face after a long, dark winter.
I, living in Poland, which has quite an awful climate with only 2-3 months of real sunshine, personally believe that people from South are happier, less stressed and, most of all, nicer to each other mainly because they get their portion of sunshine needed to be a decent human ;)
(well, of course there are plenty of other factors that influence the well being, but still - there HAS to be an explanation for the Spanish "manana" philosophy or generally for the fact that people in sunnier countries like to talk to other people (while, in my country, people just tend to stay as quiet as possible so that other people don't stare at them...).
I don't know if what I've just written makes any sense, but I'm a little bit "high" right now, because for the last 4 days we had a lot of sun and I might have exceeded the daily dose :)
E' stato un vero piacere di leggere un testo cosi saggio e, in conclusione, ottimistico.
Saluti!
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