What is the shortest path to the one I’m already on?
When I was in college years ago I took a public speaking course, and for my thesis I spoke on what I wanted to be when I grew up. I spoke at length about being happy. That’s what I wanted for myself when I grew up; to be happy.
It was a unique idea, and I got the attention of my audience.
I was nervous, but the material was well prepared, and I spoke from a true desire, and with an honesty, and with an open mindedness born of abandoning the world and finding what I might see of the world without any of my own notions about what it is.
I did well in the class, but it was just a public speaking class. It wasn’t pre-med or the bar exam. I spoke about how I saw happiness as being a choice. Perhaps not so much a conscious effort, but a choice none the less. People get tangled up in the blocks to being happy. There is a difference, from wanting something, and being disappointed by not having it.
When people get stuck they can become untangled if they remember what they wanted was to be happy, and just move into that. It’s an option.
So, whatever.
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Okay,
Father Luke
