Courage is a place
where Happiness finds its Heroes
written by
Jeannette
Zink
The other morning I was channel
cruising on my non-SMART, non-HD and non-4K television. I stumbled upon the tail end of a children’s
program on WETA/PBS. My channel changing
finger was all set to click to the next venue of choice when I heard these
words of wisdom spoken from T. rex on the Dinosaur
Train … “When I found my courage, I became happy.” I could barely move from my human tracks and
fingers were frozen in mid-air of a click.
What had just happened – a lifetime of searching for happiness – finally
declared and definitively described from the mouth of a whimsically charming dinosaur!
What do you know about happiness and
courage, Mr. Dinosaur Train conductor
… you are just a figment of imagination created inside the minds of a creative animation
team and writers for a children’s program.
Why should I take a made-up dinosaur to heart in my never-ending pursuit
of happiness? Really, has it come to this, Jeannette … taking advice from a
dinosaur!
So, I shrug and strut around with a huff
and puff swagger reasoning that this is nothing more than a silly kid’s
television program far beneath my intellectual competency. Let’s just see what the experts have to say
about courage and happiness. I turned to
the twenty-first century e-book of knowledge, GOOGLE, to fact check this little smarty pants of a dinosaur. Well, the internet indeed is a wealth of
information, even on philosophical, emotional and psychological topics as the thesis
of courage and happiness. While my
research only scratched the surface of this hypothesis that courage and
happiness may be linked to a life of bliss, I am leaning toward the side of the
Mr. Dinosaur Train conductor. That’s right, my friends, dinosaurs may have
been the first philosophers to roam the happy trails of earth. They were certainly courageous as they fought
the good fight to stay alive, while perhaps much less worried about finding
their true state of happiness.
I will admit that in watching the
recent movie, Jurassic World, I did
witness the occasional smile of courageous victory on the faces of the brave
dinosaurs as they scrambled to safety and/or were in hot pursuit of the
genetically modified dinosaur, Indominus rex.
One could even see a bit of a wink in the eye of the friendly Blue dinosaur as a show of courage to
protect the alpha hunk Chris Pratt and the fellow cast of characters.
Moving from the days of dinosaurs to
the world of great American novelists and short story writers … I quote Nathaniel
Hawthorne: Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the
courage to release.
No matter the source of our garnered
wisdom – dinosaurs, philosophers, or novelists – we will know it when we see
it/hear it/feel it with our hearts and accept as a way of life … be brave, be strong, and be courageous … these
are our stepping stones to everlasting happiness.
I leave you with one of my favorite
all time biblical quotes: Jeremiah 29:11
‘For I know the plans that I have for
you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a
future and hope….
Enjoy your
courageous journey, my kindred spirits, there is a smiley face waiting at the
release of each fear and doubt. Courage is a place where happiness finds its
hero in each of us.
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