Happiness, You can work for it all your life and never get it.

Just in case you are wondering- book two is coming along great, but slow. I have a young family that needs a lot of my time. My wife is about to pop with our last child of five so I have had to take over some of the things that normally would not have to do because of her state of comfort. I do these things very willingly and with great satisfaction that I am needed. You can find out more about book two on the Book Two tab above.
I am choosing to write to you on another note from my book Christmas Notes. The note I choose this month is Happiness.
I work hard for a living and I do not mind hard work because of the rewards I receive upon arriving home. There lies my happiness.   
Working in the field of plumbing I get to meet all walks of life of people. I have met a lot of people that despite having looked and worked for happiness for most of their lives they admittedly disclose they where unable to find it. One person left his family and went searching all the way across the ocean for happiness.  He was so sure it was to be found in the arms of a french women. He never realized that happiness had been all around him before he left. It didn't take long for him to figure it out but it was just long enough to destroy ever getting it back. He is still hunting for happiness today, and he is far from finding it.
Another person in his early adulthood went on a crusade all the way to Wall Street thinking that the first million would bring him happiness. He got his first mill and happiness never came, so he figured it must be in the next million. Again, happiness never came, so on and on he went to the multimillion. Now he is just a wealthy old man living his life alone with all his toys he purchased to imitate happiness with no one to spend his money on.
So you see, happiness is not found hidden in a romantic country. Happiness is not found in money and toys. You do not have to travel far or even work very hard to be surrounded with happiness. All it takes most of the time is a pause, a new focus, and some of your time to the ones that love you.
That is happiness and its yours anytime you want it.
May happiness be yours.
Copy write 3/17/2012 Written by Clint G Cox