With each happy
birthday, we celebrate. Every day of life should be a happy birthday complete
with presents and cake and music. Surprises are great on our birthday but not
when they show up unpleasantly. That is how life is though. When your
least expecting it, it comes out of left field, or right field for that matter.
We should have more happy birthday days than sad days. We can wait for the
mother lode and maybe wait our whole lives for it. It may never come. We can’t
always expect to hit the mother lode or anything close to that. Life is more like the tourist places that
let you pan for gold in a river somewhere. If you are lucky, you might find a
very small nugget which may not even be real gold. Many a miner in the old days
went hungry and searched in vain. Gold or happiness is not guaranteed to those
who look for them. It is important to look in the right places and be content
with what you already have.
