“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, something to hope for.”

At least that is according to the magnet someone randomly stuck up by register 2 at work.

Maybe its just ‘cause I’m lazy but I figured that 3 things were just too much work and that the world would be a much happier place in a much quicker time if those 3 essentials could all be boiled down into one.

After about a half a minute of thought between customers, I decided that blogging could cover it all.

1.  Something to DO

Once upon a time people went to work and worked there and when they came home they had hobbies.  They did such thrilling things as stamp collecting or building tiny ships in glass bottles.  Sometimes they made moonshine in their bathtubs or grew perfectly seasoned larvae infested cheeses in their basements.

Then bad things happened.  E-mail meant fewer stamps, alcohol was legalized again, shrink rays were invented to miniaturize huge ships to tiny bottle sizes, and reality televison shows claimed all the maggot infested cheeses for their programs.

All of a sudden there as nothing left to do, except watch those same reality shows or playing World of Warcraft.

Then blogging was born and we were never without anything to DO again.  When worse comes to worse you can create a blog about how you have nothing to do.  Or even better, if you have nothing to do you can blog about what your kids do or your pets do.

See…something to do = blogging = happiness.

2.  Something to LOVE.

This one was even easier.

In order to keep a blog you must have some degree of self love.  You must love to talk about yourself, and you must assume that everyone else loves you so much that they want to read about all your thoughts, dreams, opinions and what you had for breakfast.

You love watching your stats climb.  You love getting comments.  You love the love that your loving minions give you comments.  You love that strangers now know what you had for breakfast.

Yourself = Something to love = happiness

3.  Something to Hope For

When you start a blog you have hopes.  You hope to get readers, to get comments, to be internet famous.  You join social networking sites and shitty blog clubs in hopes to get more readers.  You open a cafepress account in hopes that people will buy stuff related to your blog.  You put google ads on your blog in hopes that you’ll make so much money blogging that you can quit your day job.

And, according to the quote I read, where there is hope, there is also happiness.

So there you go, the Grand Essential of Happiness is BLOGGING.

If you’re not ready for that level of happiness you can settle for some mild contentment by posting in the FORUMS.

Write a comment

Name

E-mail (will not be shown)

Website