It’s really all we need

Most of my life has been one long repetition.

I get out of bed before daylight and I’m either on the road or in the field at sun up.

No two sunrises or sunsets have ever been the same, even though farm work is basically always been the same. The small changes that come unexpectedly are for the most part pretty insignificant if you think about it, with the exception of a few deaths…

The seasons are still basically the same… spring, summer, fall, and winter. We prepare ground, we plant, water, tend and harvest. It’s explained perfectly in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, y’all can look it up…

My happiness is found in those seemingly insignificant, everyday mundane little things… like sunrises and sunsets, crops in bloom, animals looking at me through a barb wire fence, and kids in a mud hole. Birds, lizards, and bees and blooms. Dirt roads, moon phases, the smell of earth, diesel exhaust and the sounds of equipment running.

Most of my life has been just a repetition, and from a bird’s eye perspective nothing extraordinary seems to happen… but when in fact, it has.

All in all, I have enjoyed my life.

If you don’t enjoy getting up and going to work, and then sitting down to a home cooked meal with family or friends, then chances are you’re not happy.

If someone thinks happiness depends on things like lots of money, the finest of things that money can buy, a flawless woman, expensive vacations, or the finest cars… those folks are probably never happy.

My definition of happiness is a good cup of coffee in the morning, a cold glass of tea on a hot afternoon, kids playing in the yard, a short nap after dinner and so on... you know, the simple things.

Read Ecclesiastes 3:9-14.

That’s all I got, and probably all I’ll ever have, to be realistic… it’s really all a person needs.