Happiness – Get What You Want I was very much a fan of cowboy movies when I was a boy. I had a cowboy hat and vest and wore twin six-guns. One year I received a wonderful Christmas present – Gene Autry spurs. When I wore them I felt like I was ten feet tall. There was magic in them and I stood proud and strong. On another Christmas, I received a boy sized guitar with a picture of horses pulling a covered wagon on it. I was so excited to have it and looked forward to taking lessons at school. There were four others with guitars when that day came. I had not noticed but there was a metal bar under the strings of mine which gave the option of playing Hawaiian style instead of Spanish. The teacher was pleased to see it and insisted that that was how I would learn. He ignored my requests to learn cowboy music. I quit the class after the first lesson and never touched the guitar again. A great deal of the shopping people do is based on emotional reasons. Some, like my feeling about my spurs, made me very happy; others, like my guitar, brought on disappointment and resentments. • Do you recall purchases or gifts you received that had such an emotional impact on you? • How long do your purchases usually make you feel happy? • If it was unavailable when you wanted it and had to wait for it to come in, were you unhappy because you did not get it when you wanted it? • How much of your decision to buy something is influenced by current fashions, advertisements or the likes of others? A new phenomenon is Giving Tuesday. Rather than focusing on buying yourself more of the things you simply can’t live without even though you didn’t know they even existed until recently, give some thought to giving. To read more, go to happyhaddy/?p=461
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:29:15 +0000
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