As of 1400 today I’ve completed my training at my first site for FSI. Everything went well and I’m looking forward to what comes next.
This afternoon I decided to dwell on what it really means to be happy. Many in this day and age wander about looking for happiness. Some find it others die trying.
Is Thoreau correct in his view that, ” Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”?
Or what about Helen Keller who said, “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
- Which is it? I feel this also ties into the search for the secret of life. For that secret should be the thing that gives us the happiness we seek.
- In my wandering and pondering over this wide globe we call home I’ve found the true secret to life. I always thought I would learn this great truth on the top of a Himalayan mountain from a great wise man. However I never had to go that far. The answer came from an unexpected source in an unexpected place. The great secret to life was given to me by a balding mid-40’s Australian sitting in a green GP tent in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert. Not at all where/how I had in mind.
- He told me the secret is to live life on your own terms. To find what/who you love and to hold onto it. And when your life comes to an end to be satisfied with the way you live. I’ve never forgotten that to this day I try to live that. To have no regrets, to learn but not live the past. I struggle with this portion constantly as I do have some regrets and I tend to relish in certain areas that I shouldn’t. That struggle is a lot of what this blog is about. To gather the lessons of the past and look to the future. Perhaps someday I too will be complete… Have you found it?
