Self-Help Happiness Blog

“narge”. What is narge? Well, it just happens to be how both many
daughters pronounced “orange” for the first couple years of talking.
(OK, one of them is still in those first couple years).

What is so hard about the word “orange”. Even when broken down
repeatedly into three sounds - O RAN J - they still can’t pronounce
it.

Don’t make assumptions about what anybody can or cannot do. What
seems simple to one person might be beyond hope for others.

I do search engine optimization for a living. What do you mean you
can’t do it? It’s easy. I’ll bet there are things you do daily that
would send me into knots trying to figure out, too. It’s a good thing,
too. After all, where would we be if all of us were experts at
gardening and none of us were experts at plumbing?

 This inspiration was first published in A Daily Dose of Happiness two years ago.

A paragraph in National Geographic Adventure caught my attention.  This is a tale of leaving the Big Apple to carve out a life in very rural - and isolated - Vermont.

At night, lying in bed with the windows open and ticking off our list of problems, we’d hear a barred owl hooting –”Who cooks for you?”–and be struck by the small scale of our worries. Were we to fade away, Cathy said, that owl would be here anyway, keeping someone else awake with its questioning call, questioning nothing.

Yes, our problems are pretty small.  They just seem big because they are happening to us.  Sometimes it takes the big wide world to put our challenges into perspective.