It is
so easy to get lost now- a- days. Which, given all the GPS devices located
around us, you would think would be impossible. Turn right here, 100 yards to
your destination, and shazzam! You’ve reached your destination. But what about
getting lost in all the technology? How many times a day do you see, “the road
to happiness is…”? In any one day, it seems, all a person needs to be happy is
that fancy, new truck that drives itself, or the powder you put in food so you
can eat everything you want and lose weight (as long as it’s not high in fat,
sugar, and you start exercising, that is). What isn’t mentioned is the hundreds
of dollars it cost to replace the high-technology car’s keys when your toddler
flushes them down the toilet, or the brutal side effects of those little powder
packets. All this complex, high-tech gadgetry that litters the road to happiness
just seems to be piling up more and more like so much space-junk around our
atmosphere. Eventually, it will start colliding with itself and we’ll be left
standing with our handheld GPS that’s really a phone/book/HD tv wondering if this is what “happy” really looks like.
A road
running through a flowery meadow, shaded by softly swaying weeping willows,
decorated with a simple arbor of deep purple Morning Glories. Doesn’t that
sound much nicer? If the sound of birds singing, the sight of fresh, morning
dew on sweet, green grass, or a warm, apple pie is all it takes to make us
smile, then why do we need so much more? No one cringes as the thought of the
road to happiness littered with flower petals, pies, and sunshine. Butterflies
tend not to get flushed down toilets by toddlers nor does a slice of watermelon
make you sweat like its 100 degrees. Simplicity. It all boils down to simplicity.
On your
way to work tomorrow morning, stop by the Blue Egg Bakery, grab a dozen
doughnuts, and take them into the office. Watch how this simple act lights up
everyone’s day. Blue Egg pastries aren’t put through a process. There are no
preservatives you can’t pronounce, no high-tech flash-freezing methodology,
just simplicity. The pastries are made there, by hand, and sold there, by hand.
It’s happiness. Blue Egg loves happiness.
