Do Something For Someone Who Has No Chance of Ever Repaying You
My goal is to make love from my heart go viral each day, so the sound of my soul goes viral in my inner mind.
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
There is a time each day, before my eyelids open, when I almost forget my circumstances, my battle, my mission.
It is a time when I do not have to fight to feel happy.
I just am.
It lasts for a millisecond each day, but it exists.
And I hold onto that feeling all day.
The rest of my happiness I need to fight for, I need to earn.
Each day, upon my realization, I am entering a new day to fight again, I mentally adjust my mind for another battle.
I know I have work to do, as I enter each new day automatically behind in the score:
Life — 49%
JohnA — 0%
Each day that starts anew starts with me being 49% sad, crushed, an emotional wreck, in the abyss of emotional torture.
That’s the given.
The good news is I still have room to earn 51% happiness, enough to win the day.
51% beats 49%.
So every day my job is to gain that 51%.
To win the day.
The late Stuart Scott said it best in his 2014 ESPY’s speech when he said:
“You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.”
I need to earn my 51% of happiness each day by how I live, why I live, and in the manner in which I live:
By improving the quality of other people’s lives, by finding goodness and meaning, and by spreading kindness and love.
Every time I find goodness or meaning and spread kindness or love, I earn points for the day.
My goal is to earn 51 percentage points each day, to be more happy than sad.
To make the world a better place.
When I am able to do that, I win the day.
It isn’t easy.
I have no room for error.
Even 1% more on the negative side, and I lose the day.
And I hate losing.
I have no room to feel sorry for myself.
I have no room for any negative emotions.
I have no room for sarcasm.
No room for cynicism.
No room to be callous.
No room to be apathetic.
No room to be uncaring.
To get to 51%, I need each % point.
I need to capitalize on every opportunity that presents itself to gain on my deficit.
Compliments, compassion, and action gain positive percentage points.
Love, caring, and empathy are even greater points.
I look for every opportunity to spread kindness, no matter how small.
I need every % point to overcome my daily deficit.
I can’t end the day if there is 1% more I could do.
So I reach out to a friend in need.
I smile at a stranger walking by.
I reacquainted with a friend from high school.
I write a letter to someone whom I hadn’t seen in decades.
I do something for someone who has no chance of ever repaying me.
At the end of each day, I do not put my head on the pillow until I have tallied up the necessary 51% of happy points.
I find when I win the day, my soul talks to me, and when I don’t, my soul is silent.
A silent soul is a wasted soul, so each day my goal is just to hear my soul speak to me.
Spreading love and kindness puts my soul in a talking mood.
The more love and kindness I spread, the more my soul talks to me.
There is nothing more I desire than to hear my inner voice.
Each day I fan the flame of my soul by spreading love.
My goal is to make love from my heart go viral each day, so the sound of my soul goes viral in my inner mind.
I have learned the trick to kindness is time.
I have learned the reason people are callous or insensitive is that their lives are too full.
They don’t have any more space in their lives.
Even for kindness.
I have learned the best thing one can do is to de-clutter their lives. To always have space, hence time, to be kind.
The ability to take time to be kind to someone in this world is the ultimate entry into your soul.
It is one of life’s greatest ironies that people are so busy in their life trying to be happy when all they have to do is slow down and have the time to be kind.
Leave some space in your life to have the time to be kind.
And I guarantee you will win the day.
Ever since becoming an involuntary member of the “Life-Changing Events Club” when my daughter lost oxygen to her brain for 6 minutes, I have viewed life with a new perspective. That new perspective has been the greatest gift of my life. I write about that unique perspective, life, and The Universe in my memoirs which can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
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