Thursday, October 24, 2013

Letter to Happiness - Be an Artist

Be an artist - help someone.

What help? You can’t help anyone. You don’t know anyone that needs help and you're no artist. You need help. You are the failure, the useless, the incapable - what can you possibly do? 

Take a deep breath. Go ahead and list all the people in your life. Some of us are lucky and will need a couple of days to do that. Please, take all the time you need. Maybe by the time you’re done, you wouldn't need to read this anymore. Some of us may run out of people just listing them in one hand.

Some just went blank. What do you mean people? There’re no people in my life?

Hey, it’s okay.  Go walk around your neighborhood for an hour. Go on. Stand up, walk out your door and take a walk. Find your neighbors and see how many kids they have. Find your mail man and figure out when he comes to your place. Find the guy around the corner who’s just as bored as you. Go ask what the town backer’s name is. Go find some people. We live in a world full of people.

And then please think. What do they do each day? How can you brighten their day? Would the mail man appreciate a small note left for him in your mail box? Can the baker do with a new poster outside his shop? Can you help your neighbor plant some flowers? Everyone can do with a little bit more color in their life. At the most, you could leave a comment on my blog and that would make me very, very happy :) 

Go. Be an artist. Brighten their day. It will brighten your day.

*PS: don't eat paint, it's bad for you

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