Despite the disturbing news that assails us every day and seems determined to convince us that we should all be tense and unhappy recipients of the terrorist attacks all over the world forward, we remain confident that maybe somewhere there is an American who is still at least relaxed and happy.
Attempt to locate the soul untamed, should there still be one, it spread across the nation, and as we were ready to drop the shoulders and a sigh of despair, we saw a man walking down the street of a small resort town in the north-east, singing to himself the song by Louis Armstrong made eternally popular with his voice scratchy, but sincere, "What A Wonderful World."
Suspecting that we might finally have our man, we introduced ourselves and asked if he had the consent of an interview.
"Sure," he said, "but only briefly. So I can feel relaxed and happy. "
For whatever it can to help you achieve your peace and bliss, the interview follows. He reveals, among other things, focusing, in a surprising way, on topics that appear in the dictionary under the letter "F"
NewsLaugh: Just for the record, we understand that you're an American who is really relaxed and happy?
Relaxed, happy American: Yes, I am. In fact, I'm so relaxed that I can not remember when I had a tension headache. So damn happy that I smile all the time, so often, in fact, sometimes I feel like an idiot. Of course, I'm not.
NewsLaugh: Are you sure?
Relaxed, happy American: Sure, I'm sure. I'm just happy to be alive - the privileged, in fact, part of the great unfolding of life on earth and the universe. It sounds great to be part of, if you ask me, especially since I started as a small seed, swimming for his life, and an egg, wondering if and when the competitor may come from spirit.
NewsLaugh: interesting perspective. May I ask how, in this world, tense and worried, you're able to stay relaxed and happy?
Relaxed, happy American: Well, the first thing you need is what the French call away.
NewsLaugh: It means that just does not pay much attention to what's happening in the world?
Relaxed, happy American Hell, no! I allow some room for it, just so I know what's going on, a little 'how to put my hand on a coffee pot just long enough to feel the temperature, but not so long I have a blister.
NewsLaugh: Can you explain how you can maintain this perspective?
Relaxed, happy American: A lot of perspective. For example, if my body are my life, I assign events for each day something about the size of my index finger.
NewsLaugh: The index finger? Well, then, like the rest of you?
Relaxed, happy American: Oh, this is the entirety of my life, from beginning to end, I guess, maybe some eighty years - great space, especially compared the idea of living for the moment, which for me is the perfect recipe for getting too exhausted.
Newslaugh: What about the idea that only the present moment there?
Relaxed, happy American: Oh, come on, it's like watching the grass and say the blade of grass is what is now tickling the toes.
Newslaugh: Fair enough. So how does that apply to your daily life?
Relaxed, happy American: Easy. I never leave anything to the outside world, or in this case, in my personal life, become bigger than the whole, of which every event or issue is, of course, only a part. In fact, I never subject my life to anything, even when I love someone who behaves incomprehensibly. Otherwise, I would do a disservice to it. Include?
NewsLaugh: Yes, sir!
Relaxed, happy American Muchas gracias.
NewsLaugh: I noticed that spoke a little 'Spanish there?
Relaxed, happy American: So you did.
NewsLaugh: Very little. But you do not look Hispanic?
Relaxed, happy American: No, I do not, and for good reason. I'm not. But my house is open to people whose first language is Espanol. So I speak a little 'of it to get preferential treatment. For example, my air conditioner is ready for the summer. How about you?
Newslaugh: It 's like I cozy up in Mexican restaurants. But back to the taco we were talking. Sure, there are other things that contribute to its relaxed and happy?
Relaxed, happy American: Yes, there are. I feel I owe my life to do the best I can with my mind, my feelings and my body - if the three can be separated - and I so many emotional rewards from what pushes me to do, are happy.
NewsLaugh: Sounds like a pleasant pastime. Do you ever think that might be a little 'self-centered?
Relaxed, happy American: Oh, come on. There is a difference between selfishness and enlightened self-realization, because the latter includes consideration for others, that is, if you like them to have someone in your life, given in particular.
NewLaugh: OK, enough events for the day. Mind if we talk a bit about 'the great things that can burn people out, as intimations of mortality?
Relaxed, happy American: No problem! Hardly give a thought. Just figure if I take care of life, whatever made you take care of me, that is, if you take care of someone Providing more than just the stage, actors, and the food.
NewsLaugh: Fair enough. Want more?
Relaxed, happy American: Oh, one more thing. When you're down and out, must focus on the letter "F"
NewsLaugh: "F"? Why?
Relaxed, happy American: If you learn the alphabet, there is a surprising concentration of thing that people relaxed and happy.
NewsLaugh: For example?
Relaxed, happy American: Oh, food, family, friends, words like fabulous and fantastic.
NewsLaugh: E?
Relaxed, happy American: Well, good wine, fiction, philosophy, spelled, in line with an "f"
NewsLaugh: E?
Relaxed, happy American short interviews.
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