Some words hum, some words don’t. I tend to gravitate to the words that hum.
One of the things that can hit me hard and I feel no pain are words. Not just any words, but the precise words cobbled together in the exact order to initiate a ponder response. It doesn’t have to include any “big money” words, but simple, every day words.
Probably what’s most sexy is the simplicity and concise nature they are presented. Quotes have a distinct advantage in this regard.
While going through a rough patch several moons ago, I was drastically searching for happiness, you know, the happiness I used to have prior to the onset of my complacency with life. Sadly, I thought my glee hinged on an increase in the “Benjamins”. Once I located them buried deep within the promises of the money I was going to make with William Bronchick’s and Carlton Sheets’ creative real estate investing courses, I was going to be one elated chap. I was going to be a real estate mogul; a millionaire.
Who wouldn’t be happy with that set up?
It took me years of late-night infomercials, hundreds of courses bought and one numbing epiphany, that the only one making money, was William Bronchick and Carlton Sheets…with the proceeds from each course those fellows sold. I’m not saying their ideas didn’t work, but not for me. I’m certain I wasn’t the only sapsucker in that stew.
At some point during this phase, while licking my wounds, I stumbled upon these words:
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
~ Marcel Pagnol
These relevant words hit me like a 2 by 4. It felt quite good.