Happiness and Good health - make it a constant in your life. Let the sun shine in!

My day starts at around 4. It is a good day if I wake up without any pain from gout or my hernia, it is a good day if I do not need to turn on my heater to ward off winter chills, and it is a good day if my tired mind can drive my tired physical self to start to write as soon as I take the first sip of my morning coffee.

This morning has, so far, been a good morning. No pain, no Winter, and the coffee taste good.

At 75, what matters most to me is good health. I am reminded of this by every ache and pain that I feel whenever my gout and/or hernia visits my physical self. And then there is also the ache and pain when somehow, during sleep, I manage to inflict upon myself further pain because I slept the wrong way. Why I do so is still one of life's mysteries, I cannot brian why I keep doing it. At 75, the body is less forgiving - if I sleep wrong, it will take at least until lunch before some semblance of good health, returns. Half a day wasted in pain is half a day wasted. I cannot do anything, I cannot go anywhere, and I cannot think of anything else but the pain. It is at times like this that you know that there is no such thing as "mind over matter". The pain matters and the mind thinks about it all the time. Good health matters.

What else matters? Happiness. Whatever makes you happy, matters to you.

For some, going to the Paris End of Collin Street in Melbourne, and buying a high-end purse from Hermes makes them happy. If you do not have to steal from the rakyat to be able to afford a Hermes purse, go buy yourself one, and be happy.

For some being appointed Speaker of the House, and damm any of your previous convictions that your many fans may have thought you have had, makes you happy. Do it. And getting a Tan Sri to boot is, for you, the icing on the cake. Do it.

Today, I intend to have a double Fillet of Fish from Mcdonald's for lunch. I will get a senior coffee for free because in Melbourne when you are a warga emas, you get free coffee with your meals at Mcdonald's. I will enjoy having that Fillet of Fish and that free Coffee is the icing on my cake. That will be my happiness thing for today. Happiness matters, and whatever makes you happy is good.

And then there is also making the people that matter to you, also happy. That also matters because when they are happy, it makes you happy too. I started this morning by washing the dirty dishes in the sink so that my son does not have to wash the dishes when he wakes up. That makes him and me, happy. Happiness is contagious, happiness perks you up, and happiness should be a constant in your life...period!

Good health and happiness....if you have them....are the very ingredients of life that make everything else a plus. Work, relationships, and the other 'value added' things that you do to make life better, then come easy. Have a nice day. Do good. Be good. And be nice to one another.