It's Great To Be Happy!

I'll by 71 soon and I suppose I never expected to be as happy as this at this age.

What did I expect?

I'm not sure really. I think I hoped for a better life than I was experiencing during my 20s. If what I was experiencing during my early 20s was all there was to life then I would have taken my own life then like many people do.

But, I had some good things on my side. I had already almost died twice by age 18 once from whooping cough at age 2 and once from blunt trauma childhood epilepsy from ages 10 to 15 from a blow to the head so I already knew how bad life could be physically.

But, what's interesting about all that is these illnesses made me very compassionate to other people's suffering. Already just from what I experienced at 2 and 10 to 15 had made me learn compassion for the suffering of others as well as my own suffering.

So, almost dying twice just made sure I stayed alive more than anything else. If you almost die you value your life and others lives more than those who haven't faced death like I had already.

Next, my father knew that I wouldn't have to be drafted and have to go to the Viet Nam War because of Childhood Epilepsy caused by a blow to the head. I didn't understand this at the time until he told me to fill out the draft papers you needed to sign when you registered for the draft the day you turn 18 then in 1966. So, I was at a private school in Santa Fe, New Mexico and dutifully for my father went to the post office to get my draft registration form to fill out. And where it said: "Is there any medical reason why you shouldn't be drafted?" I filled out the card and said: "Yes." Then later when I returned to Glendale, California and my parents home in late May of 1966 they sent me a form asking me for more information. So, anyway I didn't get drafted or have to serve in the military.

And this is another reason I'm happy now. Because I never had to kill anyone and get that type of PTSD. Because being drafted I don't think would have made me a better person. It likely would have just made me a dead person because of my nature. In other words: because I was already so supernaturally powerful it is likely that I would have realized I had become dangerous to everyone and self destructed one way or another. So, being drafted I likely would have died rather than be a danger to others anyway.

So, I'm happy now because I didn't have to kill anyone. This is a part of it.

I realized yesterday that many people are inspired by my present wife and I because we are happy and have been for 25 years now. But, we didn't meet until I was about 45 and she about 39 years old. So, many people we meet of all ages use our template for their own relationships simply because it works!

I have been married 3 times now. The first was living with my girlfriend a year and then being married for 3 years, we had a son and he is now almost 45. I raised him after my first wife and I broke up. He is married now with a son. My second marriage we raised my son and her two children from her first marriage and then in 1989 had a daughter of our own. She is now 30 and living with her boyfriend. My present wife and I met in late 1994 and we have a daughter who is now 23.

So, the point of all this is I have been married 3 times since 1974 but only single two years of that time. So, most of my life I have been married to someone since 1974. My cousin who is 76 said to me: "You just kept trying until you succeeded!" which is true.

I'm a very determined or stubborn person (usually both) I just don't give up when something is important enough which is a part of the pioneer heritage of my father's side who came to the U.S. form Switzerland about 1725 to Philadelphia  up the river there by boat from the ocean. Now I have relatives all over the U.S. from those 6 Swiss Brothers that came to the U.S. in I believe 1725.

My great grandmother lived to be 105 and didn't pass away until the 1950s and was born likely in the 1850s. I never met her because she lived in Kansas and I in California. My mother, her two sisters and their mother all lived to be 90 years old. So, I have longevity on both sides of my family and many of the men on my fathers side lived into their 80s and 90s. So, longevity is on both sides of my family.

So, it's great to be happy! I had two parents that loved me and raised me from birth and were always there for me until my father passed away in 1985 and my mother passed away in 2008 many years later. This was more important than I ever realized before having both my parents alive and there for me until my father passed away in 1985.

So, it's great to be happy and to help your family and friends be happy too by being a good example to all of them!

Also, if you allow yourself to be happy you will tend to live longer also. You will take better care of yourself so you can help family and friends survive whatever comes!

Another reason my wife and I are happy is my present wife loves all my children and has adopted them as her own and they have adopted her too. So, this makes a real difference. We had all our children together for Christmas here in the greater SF Bay area in 2018 which was great too. Because we haven't ALL been together for Christmas for about 7 years because someone was always living overseas and couldn't make it. Also, my wife and I adopted another girl who is now 34 who came to Christmas with her husband and 1 year old. So, we now have 2 grandchildren for Christmas which is wonderful Too!

By God's Grace