The secret to being happy and healthy is...

Chair Man
We had our Last Friday celebration the other night and at our church we featured a fantastic Tuba Quartet and free ice cream for all.  This is an outdoor event involving the whole town with a lot of music everywhere, outside dining at many of our fine restaurants and hundreds of happy people just enjoying the community and the fine weather.  I got there early and helped take some chairs down the outside steps and carried them over to where some people were setting up card tables for visitors so they could sit and listen to the fine music.  My right knee had been bothering me as it sometimes does and I had been limping badly the day before. I went to our SportsPlex and my trainer-therapist did some magic and it wasn't feeling too badly as I started out that evening. About 6 trips up and down those stairs with armfuls of chairs were beginning to tell on me to I stopped and let some others carry on. Then when the concert ended I immediately folded up some chairs and started carrying them up the stairs and into the church.  I figured that maybe if I got it going before everyone left I might start a chair movement.  One other fellow joined me and then another and most people wandered on down the street.  One young, healthy looking volunteer I did not know who had just probably come down the street as a visitor had gathered about a dozen chairs and lined them up to the bottom of the stairs and he smiled at me and said, "I brought 'em to the bottom of the stairs," and then he waved and walked off.

I'll be honest.  I carried a few more chairs upstairs and my leg was really bothering me and so I gathered up my wife and we walked off into the night.

Now I've been thinking about that young fellow. He saw a need.  He pitched right in and he made a real contribution.  I appreciate his help.  He did a whale of a lot more than most who were there.  The only thing is, he didn't take the time to observe the entire situation.  Those chairs needed moving up a dozen steps, down a long hall and then up another ten or so steps.  He just got involved with the tip of the iceberg, felt good about his contribution to the cause and then he moved on. I did just about what he did only I claimed a disability excuse for the moment.

What about all the other people in the world...Those who didn't show up...those who showed up and enjoyed themselves and were oblivious to the need; those in the majority who just didn't want to get involved?

And I have reached this conclusion.  That situation was just about like most of life.  There are givers, their are takers, there are doers and those who don't seem to realize that anything is going on.  It is life and the only one that we have any real control over is ourselves and our own actions.  The secret to being happy and healthy is to be a giver and a doer and to spend the moments enjoying an active life and to have the good sense to let others take care of their own lives.  That is what I am going to try to concentrate on the rest of the day. 

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