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Dec 24, 2009 1:08:02 AM
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Edward Hays has written several books of modern parables, in one of them a young man, on a date with a girl, receives a fortune cookie that says "You will die a happy man." Reading this he thinks "I could die tonight, so I must make this the happiest night of my life." He does not die, but lives on with that same attitude toward life. Many, many years later he does die, as an old man, and at his funeral everyone says that he was the happiest man they ever knew. Happiness comes from within, meaning comes from within, those who search for some wise man to tell them the meaning of life, or the secret to happiness, will die frustrated at the end of a long futile search. Once when I was teaching the students were seated at the end of class waiting for the bell, telling jokes and making funny comments. After settling down from the last witticism one obnoxious brat had the nerve to say, "come on, someone make me laugh". He was so self centered that he thought the rest of the world was there to entertain him. Meaning happiness and acheviment are all internal and it doesn't matter if you make a great discovery or support and help others to do so. There is a song "Wind beneath my wings" where one person can do great things but only with the strength and support of others, and these others have acheved great things even if their name is not on the credits.
by thedoc
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