A Great Day to Golf--Take a Hint Mr. Happy!

If you want to be happy, do not talk to negative people.  Because they will take the sunshine out of your smile.  On top of that, they will take the smile out of sunshine and turn all days dark and gloomy.

Though thunder and lightening can be exciting, after a while, nonstop rain can get you down.  And the people who have tempest tantrums will soak your soul and leave you soggy from your head to your toes.

It isn’t easy, but in dreary times and amongst uproarious folk, it is best to let your smile be your umbrella so you don’t get drenched.

Or for a hipper version, click the link below:

Pete Miserendino/Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella

Don’t let the “Mr. Happy’s” of this world turn your milk sour….  Fun Your Way out of the Box!  You’ll be glad you did

positive thinking · smile · tempest tantrum

So, I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for some of my clients to pay me.  And everyday for the last week that I have gone to my PO Box, the checks that were supposed to be “in the mail” weren’t.  Nothing in the mailbox.  Empty and echoing.

Hey, wait.  That’s not nothing.  An echo is something, isn’t it?

Well, it isn’t exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll go with it.

Today, was just as echo-y as the last week has been.  I decided not to take the nothing for granted, so I put something in the mailbox.  Something attractive.  So.  I sang into the mailbox, which you may or may not think is attractive, but my voice didn’t crack.

Here’s what I sang:

“I got plenty of nothin’, And nothin’s plenty for me!”

Of course some lady walked in right at that moment, pretending not to hear me.  She whipped out her key and upon opening her box, she found hers to be empty also. “Nothing?  Not again,” she sighed.

So I said I had nothing, too, but I was willing to share.

She smiled and said it was okay.  She had plenty enough of her own and didn’t want more.  She left, leaving me with all my nothing and nothing leftovers.  Looks like I wouldn’t have to cook nothing for dinner tonight.

So this got me thinking.  What is this nothing anyway?  Does nothingness really exist?  If it takes up space, then it is something.  And if it’s something you can think about, then Nothing can take on major substance.

Then there’s this.  If you ask some kid what he’s doing and he says, “Nothing,” you know damn well he IS doing something, and you better find out what it is speedy quick.

Now in this current economic situation, I’ve had well meaning souls say to me, “Money isn’t everything.”  I pondered that all the way home from the post office.  Wondering.  If money isn’t everything, than what is everything?”

And this was so weird, but a little voice in my head said, “Nothing.”

What!  Nothing is everything?!?!

“Yes,” said the voice.  “And Everything is nothing.”

Whoa.  That’s a mind blower!  Hard to get a grip on that one.

So I looked my nothing in the eye and laughed at it.  Offended, it ran away, leaving something behind.  An invoice!  Now that sure was something!

Another bill.  Yay!

In these tough economic times, stay hopeful.  I keep telling myself, it can’t last forever.  Remember ECON 101?  Professor P. stated that the economy is cyclical.

Cyclical sounds fun.  A bike is a cycle.   So I’m thinking about a bike going down a killer hill.  But not just any hill.  A big hill of okra.   Slimy and gooey and great in gumbo.

And then I thought of a spinning wheel, pricking my finger and falling fast asleep like Sleeping Beauty.

And then another Spinning Wheel popped into my dream.  What goes up, must come down…

And I dreamed of blood, sweat and tears.  And a hippy hairdo in a tie-dye shirt.

Or the Wheel of Fortune.  Yo Vanna!

This post can’t last forever, and neither will this down cycle.  Eventually it has to go up again.  So tighten your belt another notch.  And laugh that you are finally fitting into a Size 4!

And the bonus:  Laughter costs nothing but makes you feel like a million bucks.

Fun Your Way out of the Box.  Or not.  Either way it’s still a box.

feel like a million bucks · laughter is the best medicine · positive thinking