Wisdom from an Elder
ValuesPosted on Thu Apr 13, 2006 at 05:58:05 AM EST
Someday soon I will do a post on all the "elderbloggers" that are out there, and provide links to them somewhere on the Exchange.
But today I want to share a special article that was just forwarded to me -- it's a piece by Stewart Elliot, a man living in a nursing home who writes a regular newspaper column for the Evansville Courier and Press. Here's an excerpt from yesterday's column carried by the Scripps Howard News Service, titled "Don't Look for Happiness":
But today I want to share a special article that was just forwarded to me -- it's a piece by Stewart Elliot, a man living in a nursing home who writes a regular newspaper column for the Evansville Courier and Press. Here's an excerpt from yesterday's column carried by the Scripps Howard News Service, titled "Don't Look for Happiness":
I have often taken the position that there is no better place than here, and that people are more important than places. If you differ with me, that is OK; so do many of my relatives. If they keep migrating, my nieces are all going to live in Florida. My granddaughter is in San Francisco. I'm convinced the address doesn't matter. Your level of happiness depends on who lives there.
Because we were happy together, my wife and I were happy in Chicago, New Harmony, Ind., San Francisco, and here at the nursing home. We didn't find happiness in any of those places; we took it with us.
Perfect happiness? Be content with being happy. Perfection is reserved for heaven.
Somewhere I have written that if you go searching for happiness, it is sure to elude you. If you follow the road that leads you in the right direction, you will find it along the way. In that sense, it may vary from most of our goals. Some natural law that I do not pretend to understand says that if we stay cheerful and positive and have a clearly defined goal, all the forces of nature will push us in the right direction.
Stewart Elliott is a nursing home resident who writes the column "Notes From a Nursing Home" for the Evansville Courier and Press in Evansville, Ind. Contact him at thepilgrimSE@hotmail.com
Because we were happy together, my wife and I were happy in Chicago, New Harmony, Ind., San Francisco, and here at the nursing home. We didn't find happiness in any of those places; we took it with us.
Perfect happiness? Be content with being happy. Perfection is reserved for heaven.
Somewhere I have written that if you go searching for happiness, it is sure to elude you. If you follow the road that leads you in the right direction, you will find it along the way. In that sense, it may vary from most of our goals. Some natural law that I do not pretend to understand says that if we stay cheerful and positive and have a clearly defined goal, all the forces of nature will push us in the right direction.
Stewart Elliott is a nursing home resident who writes the column "Notes From a Nursing Home" for the Evansville Courier and Press in Evansville, Ind. Contact him at thepilgrimSE@hotmail.com
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