Blog 3058 – 03.15.2024

I Get A Kick Out Of You

Today’s song is classic Sinatra. As he ticks off the list of things some people may get a kick out of, he always ends each refrain with the same conclusion, “But I get a kick out of you.” What an impossible burden it is to expect someone else to keep us happy. Why even the U.S. Constitution in enumerating a few of our inalienable rights only refers to “the pursuit of happiness” not the attainment nor maintaining of it. We are responsible for our own happiness. Only after finding it ourselves can we share it with others

Perhaps that is what Frank is talking about, finding someone who has happiness enough to share. The Beatles in their song called Elenor Rigby sing about all the lonely and unhappy people and ask, “Where do they all come from?Where do they all belong?” Nat King Cole might suggest that they get their kicks on Route Sixty Six.” Who does love a good road trip?

I have found that more than a person, face, or particular time or place that happiness is a state of being open to all the possibilities. I begin my daily mantra with these words, “My heart and my mind are open. My arms and my hands are open. My mouth, noses, ears, and eyes are open to all the Universe has for me, for all the Universe to flow in and through me.”

The kicker about this pursuit of happiness thing is that if we refuse to fixate on a particular person, place, or face that happiness will find us if we stay open to all the possibilities.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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I Get A Kick Out Of You