”A Fool's Guide To Happiness” is the 7th in my 2022 series of articles based on my real life experiences, professional insights, personal views and fun stories. My hope is that in them you find joy and inspiration.
Your fool's guide to happiness - Instructions
* Wake up feeling angry. Kick the cat. Chastise the children.
* Stuff down a stale roll. Slurp a sloppy coffee.
* Pick a fight with spouse. Slam door on way out.
* Commute to your paid employment. Launch a foul-mouthed tirade at the jampack of cars on the highway. Or kick fellow zombies in the mass melee madness of the tube. Preferably both.
* Arrive at work late. Finger your boss behind his back.
* Adjourn to the collective complaining committee at the coffee' machine.
* Whinge about – SPACE - enter here any subject. It matters not what. The less you know about it the better.
* Stare at computer screen. Abuse client on phone. Feel exhausted. Go for lunch.
* Pig on a cardboard burger and rancid relish at a fast crap joint .
* Return to 'work'. Repeat morning procedure but with renewed resentment.
* Abandon 'work' early. Go to pub. Indulge in hollow humour with brain fuddled drinkers, junkies and smartphone addicts.
* Stagger home. Stand on cat. Ignore children.
* Fail to find dinner ... or spouse. Read the - "I'm out of here" - note pinned to doll effigy of yourself. Feel no emotion.
* Fall asleep on couch. Snore a lot and pass wind.
* Wake up feeling angry .....
Read the above. Memorise it. Practice it. Soon you will become accomplished in the art. You will do it on autopilot.
Congratulations! You now are a fool's guide to happiness!
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Comments
That's truly a "Fools Guide to Happiness" Tom. That scenario probably plays out in households across the Earth
everyday! And it's a nightmare that most people actually choose for themselves. When someone
tells me how much they hate their job, I will suggest maybe you should think about starting your
business. First, you get the blank stare, then all the reasons why they can't. Then back to complaining
some more.
Aah-ha Robin, yes the blank stare and the excuses. You and I clearly have many shared experiences! :-)
Your post is close to what we are taught, "be self-employed" is not what we hear. Thanks, Tom.
As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am heading for the couch right now for a nice nap, and there is the cat, thanks, Tom.
Our self-employed world is an altogether different dynamic to that which I portray in the article George - cats notwithstanding!
This is not me, unfortunately there are a lot of people in the world are like this and might not realize it.
Hopefully people will read your post and make changes for a better life.
If my humour entertains and enlightens just a little, then it's well placed Terri. I've observed all the various strands of the piece, at dufferent times in my experience.
It definitely does both Tom Remember the old saying "Experience is the best teacher."