True Happiness

a co-worker of mine just returned from a trip to his wife's home country of Singapore. As he was talking about his adventures and as we were looking through pictures, I couldn't help but notice how truly genuine happy the people with, and they had nothing. They had a well for their water, this is how they cooked, bath, washed clothing etc. Their kitchen, well it wasn't tile floors and granite counter tops - it was dirt and the sink wasn't even a sink.

Their living room, they brought out for their guests - it is a folding table with plastic chairs around it - this is their living room, no big screen TV, no Wii, no couch to sit on or even a bean bag chair to lounge around in and their living room was outside - it wasn't inside their little home. My co-worker was explaining how where his in laws lived, this was considered the "rich" part of the town, to us it looked like a shady apartment complex in Covington.

And through these pictures and stories, one thing that was common was that these people had smiles on their faces from ear to ear, they were genuinely happy, you could see it on their face and you could see it in their eyes.

Us Americans, we are spoiled brats. I grew up not having the best of the best, I remember wanting a pair of Guess jeans because that is what was in style, they were like $50 - mom said to get a job :) We had cars or if you can call them that, that barely ran - these people in Singapore, they ride bicycles. I know people as we all do that absolutely have to have the best of the best, the biggest house, the most expensive car, the latest technology, the fanciest cameras, the best clothes, the latest hairstyle, and I realized and have realized, that people like that, are just hiding their unhappiness. It is a status quo thing you know. Let me have everything so I don't have to show anyone I am unhappy, I can just hide behind my materialistic items.

There is a lesson to be learn from my co-worker and his trip; do we really need all of these materialistic things to be truly happy - NO. A person just needs God, friends, family and love in their life - we don't need all of these materialistic items to be genuinely happy.

If you can't find happiness with out your materialistic items, then you are unhappy person and you are just lying to yourself that you are truly happy.

Find your genuine happiness - be the person God wants you to be, he doesn't like greed.

Happy Cold Thursday - at least February is over :)

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,