Happy Everything Day
Happy New Year to all you and yours who have come by my site both today and over the past four years to see what’s going on at the Park. In fact, happy everything…Happy holidays, happy morning, happy scrambled eggs, happy drive into work, and happy surfing the internet. Today, on the start of the 3rd day of the new year The Trailer Park is decreeing today, January 3, 2006 “Happy Everything Day”. And why not, I ask you?
Surely we are as deserving as anyone else to be happy, and while it’s one thing to be deserving, it’s quite another to grasp joy with both hands and take it for your own. Today is all about that…it is all about putting the blessing of happiness on the ordinary to make you realize that there is nothing about life that is ordinary. We have created a world (or at least a corner of the world) that is all about scraping life’s hard edges off in the hopes that this newly founded piece of smoother comfort will complete the Life-Puzzle-of-Bliss we all crave. Where we seem to have wandered, is that we see each comfort as the new norm—we no longer see coffee makers as a wonder quick and easy good coffee, instead we still hate getting up to wander into the kitchen pour the water, scoop the grounds and wait.
So while there is a whole year to complain about automatic transmissions, noisy refrigerators, burnt roasts and slow websites, right now, for one day (and that day would be the first day of work after the start of the New Year) be happy for life and all it’s trappings.
Here’s where you say “We already have a day like that, it’s called Thanksgiving!” But there is a difference between giving thanks and grasping joy. I am thankful every morning that there is hot water for my shower, but I am not happy every morning I take a shower.
Why today? I don't know, it just seems like the best time of year for a day like this. If it were to be on the first day of the New Year, most everyone would be like “Fuck off…I have a headache you stupid bastard” and if it were just some random date in the middle of the year, you’d be all “My years already been total crap, shut up already!” But the first workday of the year is the perfect time to grasp happiness, since we’re in the post first hangover of the year, yet pre “This year is totally sucking” frame of mind.
Besides, I need to get this day out of the way early this year as well, since Ike goes under the knife on Friday, and while we all know how thankful we are for modern medicine, having Ike in the hospital doesn’t come close to making us happy. It’s nothing life threatening, it’s just time to have the metal pins taken out of his hip (from his surgery two years ago) and to have some tendons released to help him not to be so twisted (and maybe someday be able to bare a little weight on his legs.) And so off to Mary Bridge we go.
So you can see, my window of bliss might be quickly closing and while I have no idea what kind of year this is going to be, I know that so far, it’s been a pretty good one and why not sing the praises while the mood strikes?
I have a few resolutions this year, but none better than the one Sweetie told me and that I adopted for my own. It’s simply this: Be generative, not reactive. If I can just find myself at the end of the year having generated my life more than just reacting to it, then I will consider this a year well spent.
Surely we are as deserving as anyone else to be happy, and while it’s one thing to be deserving, it’s quite another to grasp joy with both hands and take it for your own. Today is all about that…it is all about putting the blessing of happiness on the ordinary to make you realize that there is nothing about life that is ordinary. We have created a world (or at least a corner of the world) that is all about scraping life’s hard edges off in the hopes that this newly founded piece of smoother comfort will complete the Life-Puzzle-of-Bliss we all crave. Where we seem to have wandered, is that we see each comfort as the new norm—we no longer see coffee makers as a wonder quick and easy good coffee, instead we still hate getting up to wander into the kitchen pour the water, scoop the grounds and wait.
So while there is a whole year to complain about automatic transmissions, noisy refrigerators, burnt roasts and slow websites, right now, for one day (and that day would be the first day of work after the start of the New Year) be happy for life and all it’s trappings.
Here’s where you say “We already have a day like that, it’s called Thanksgiving!” But there is a difference between giving thanks and grasping joy. I am thankful every morning that there is hot water for my shower, but I am not happy every morning I take a shower.
Why today? I don't know, it just seems like the best time of year for a day like this. If it were to be on the first day of the New Year, most everyone would be like “Fuck off…I have a headache you stupid bastard” and if it were just some random date in the middle of the year, you’d be all “My years already been total crap, shut up already!” But the first workday of the year is the perfect time to grasp happiness, since we’re in the post first hangover of the year, yet pre “This year is totally sucking” frame of mind.
Besides, I need to get this day out of the way early this year as well, since Ike goes under the knife on Friday, and while we all know how thankful we are for modern medicine, having Ike in the hospital doesn’t come close to making us happy. It’s nothing life threatening, it’s just time to have the metal pins taken out of his hip (from his surgery two years ago) and to have some tendons released to help him not to be so twisted (and maybe someday be able to bare a little weight on his legs.) And so off to Mary Bridge we go.
So you can see, my window of bliss might be quickly closing and while I have no idea what kind of year this is going to be, I know that so far, it’s been a pretty good one and why not sing the praises while the mood strikes?
I have a few resolutions this year, but none better than the one Sweetie told me and that I adopted for my own. It’s simply this: Be generative, not reactive. If I can just find myself at the end of the year having generated my life more than just reacting to it, then I will consider this a year well spent.
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