Don't worry, be happy! Smile!

These news caught my eyes last Friday (Aug. 15, 2008) in the daily newspapers here. It features one of my favorite relaxing song "Don't worry, be happy". Because according to the song when you worry you make it (your problems) double.

There's another song I also like that also illustrates the key to happiness or at least take us to the right track. The song Smile by Nat King Cole.

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, whats the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile.

So... as these songs suggest , DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY and just SMILE!

My pleasures

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)

Everytime I witness my daughter's milestones, when she gives me loving looks and sweet kisses and hugs, when she and my kitty plays, hearing my mom's satisfaction, feeling love from a distance, friends reassuring words, cooking, eating, getting enough sleep, a beautiful sunrise, full moon, stary nights, shopping, meeting friends, notes from long-time-no-hear friends, words of appreciation and praise from friends, family, bosses and former bosses, and workmates, nice pictures, surfing the net, talking to friends, watching tv, listening to music, a nice cup of coffee in the morning... all these makes me happy ... and these are just a few of the long list of things I can think about that makes me happy.

To find delight in our daily lives is very easy, we don't have to look very far. It exist where we are right now.

How about you, what makes you happy?

SMILE!

Happiness is contagious,

when you reflect happiness

all others around you

catch the happy bug

and become happy too.

For most of us, happiness is just barely out of reach. We know we can achieve it. It is just a couple "if only's" away. We tell ourselves, "If only _____, then I'd be happy. I could relax." Therefore, we pursue what we feel is missing - confident in the knowledge that while we are not happy right now, we will be soon. When the time comes that we achieved that “if’s” we we’re after again we come to the point of telling ourselves again something still feels missing. New "if only's" pops up to replace the old ones. Again, we are caught in a race with a moving finish line. Contentment is more elusive than we had originally thought. Eventually, if we want to be happy, we must come to grips with an important fact. That we have been fooling ourselves. Contentment, it turns out, is not a destination. Rather, it is a manner of traveling. If we cannot feel it today, we will not find it tomorrow.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Be happy now!