There are times where the light bulb goes on. Somebody says something and it changes your thought pattern, luckly for me it was my dad where one of those moments happened.
I believe we were on the 5th hole after two pretty good drives by both of us, waiting for the group ahead of us to move along. The day was perfect, a summertime perfect. As we waited in the cart he put his arm around me and said I could ask any question I wanted and he would give me his "divine" wisdom.
I said that I just wanted to be happy so "what is happiness". It was a joke question really, I mean who really knows what happiness is. I got two answers, both divine in their wisdom. The first.....
"Happiness is stupidity", the though pattern is that we need to be just stupid enough not to know any better. what a great answer and lets face it, don't we all want to be just stupid enough to think everything is great.
The second....
"Happiness is continual improvement". This one took a little bit to sink in but how can you argue the logic. Just knowing we are getting a little better at something is enough to allow happiness to creep in.
This was my light bulb moment, it is that comment that pushed me forward to finish school, to try to always better myself and my family and will be the wisdom that I will, when the time is right, pass along to my kids.
As a dad myself I hope that I can have that kind of influence on my kids someday, to let them know "be stupid enough to think that continual improvement can make you happy".
Merry Christmas Dad, enjoy the new outlet to let people all over the world basque in your divine wisdom.
Love
Paul