I
read the book, *A Complaint Free World*.
I got the idea to put
a sign on my fence that says:
HONK IF YOU'RE HAPPY!
The paraphrased story goes something like this;
The man had put the sign up more than a year ago. He was the coach at the local
high school.
He and his wife enjoyed living near the beach;loved the people in their
community.
"A while back, my wife became ill.
The
doctors said to get her affairs in order."
They began to accept that her life would
be ending soon.
They moved a hospital bed into their bedroom. She
lay in the dark; miserable.
One day, the man was sitting out on the deck drowning
in despair.
He could hear the cars crossing the causeway to the beach.
It was along South Carolinas's coast line, 60 miles of beach,
one of the top tourist destinations in
the USA.
He realized many of those people were going on vacation.....
A happy time.
"It
hit me as I sat there on the deck that, although my wife was dying,
happiness didn't have to die with her.
In fact, happiness was all around us.
It was in the millions
of cars that passed just a few hundred feet from our house every day."
He told his wife about putting up the
sign.
She found great comfort in knowing she was not isolated in the dark room, dying.
When
people honked: "She was part of the happiness of the world.
It was literally all around her."
The
wife found her life was now as rich as ever before;
the blasts of horns, day
and night,
told her there was happiness in the world.
Although, she did not know
the people,
she made up stories in her mind about their lives....
Happy, happy lives."
"With the support of her loving husband,
rather than focusing on what her reality
was-
this wonderful woman had focused on the good around her.
And
in doing so, she had beaten the odds, embraced life,
and touched millions of people!"
So, when you go by please:
HONK IF YOU*RE HAPPY!
Candy
