A Wonderful Whole

The best thing you can do for those you love
is to be happy, the worst thing you can do is
to be unhappy, and then ask them to try and
change it when there is nothing that anybody
can do that will make you happy

A catch 22 situation, force them to be responsible
for the impossible and then blame them for failing,
blame them for not being happy in your own mind
and imagination, a perfect recipe for failure to be
applied in any relationship

First become happy in yourself, then share this with
others, do not pause at the side of those who insist
on being unhappy for whatever obscure or obvious
reasons, they will blame YOU for failing to entertain
and amuse them, not lifting the blue

Join those who are happy and joyous, romp and laugh
with them, appreciate physical life as a short-lived gift
that will be replaced with something else before you
have had enough of sunshine and rain, laughter and
physical pain: enjoy life as a game

Never blame anyone but yourself for the reaction you
feel as life unfolds, you are in control of the thoughts
you choose to think and the feelings evoked by the
lines in your mind - I am not good at this game but
I can feel that it works from time to time

I hang on to books in which the protagonists apply this
advice to create a beautiful world of wonderful delight
and charm, when failing in my own little life I turn to the
alternative place of courage and hope, it always helps
in the end, however long it might take

Just one person turning away from sadness and pain and
joining me in happy sunshine adds a sparkling dimension
to life that lifts my soul from self-doubt into the realms of
the self-confident - when we become responsible and
completely independent, we find everyone

Being so charming and talented, good-natured and sweet,
there is no choosing a favourite amongst them, beautiful
souls congregate in a wonderful whole, united in one
consciousness for eternity…