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[The prompt at Real Toads is to write an epistle style letter or missive to the world.]
Dear World,
did you know that
depression can be cured
by going on a road trip to Nanaimo,
eating Vietnamese food,
and, after, buying a $5.99 Vietnamese coffee maker,
so I wont have to wait a whole year for another cup?
Did you know that the happiness this event produced
had the salesclerk laughing,
that, just as the purchasing made my day,
my joy made the clerk's day too,
win/win?
Did you know that
a new rice bowl
made me as happy
as a chinchilla fur coat
used to make movie stars,
and more cheaply?
(and with no suffering to animals?)
Did you know that
happiness is always
only an arm-length away,
as close by as a favorite cosy sweater,
a cup of tea,
a rock on the porch swing,
a visit with a big old slobbery dog,
or a laughing-eyed baby?
Did you know that
this afternoon, in the mall,
I watched a princess pass by?
She was in her stroller,
and giving the Princess wave,
arm/hand, arm/hand, as perfectly
as any princess ever did,
with a pleased knowledge in her eyes
that she was a true princess,
and beautiful,
and deserved to be adored,
and that that made me idiotically happy
and hopeful for the whole world?
Dear World,
did you know that,
after an afternoon away,
there is no better happiness
than Coming Home?
Dear World,
please open your eyes.
Happiness is all around,
all around.
Scoop it up, big heaping armfuls of it,
and scurry home with it clutched
to your chest.
A giant dose of
exponential happiness
is only one cup of coffee
away.
