I’m really winging this post, so just go with me.  I appreciate this!

I have this post that I want to share with you, but I have one problem.  It has a video with it and I have no idea how to make it work.  I have tried everything that I can and I just can’t get it accomplished. Yes, I have tried   You Tube, but I think it is in the wrong format or something like that. What I have decided to to is write the post and then if you want to see the video just leave your email address for me and I can email it to you ASAP with an attachment.  That I know I can do.

Here is the post and here is the title for it.

WHAT EXCUSE DO YOU HAVE FOR NOT BEING HAPPY…AFTER WATCHING THIS VIDEO?

Sometimes we have to see how other people live or lived to really recognize how luck and happy we really are.

When things are going good, tradition tells us to count our blessings. Say you lost your job, have a health problem, your spouse left you or you’re just having a really bad day.  A series of studies published in the Journal of personality and Social Psychology says, “Maybe positive thinking isn’t the best way to look at a life.” Instead maybe you’re better off imagining how your life would be if you had been born at a different time in history.

I received this email about how life use to be in the early 1900’s.  After looking at this slide show I feel that with hard times falling on so many people these day that we need to be reminded that things could be much worst then they are.

After watching this slide show I am so grateful and happy that I did not have to live this way and that my children and grandchildren have such a great and happy life compared to these wonderful people that went through all these hardships to give us a much better world to live in.

I just wonder if these people were happier on a day to day base then people are today.  We worry so much about the wrong things.  We worry about what other people are going to think, we worry about others having more than we do, so we put ourselves in debt trying to keep up with our neighbor and worry about how we look and what clothes we should wear on a daily base and the list goes on.

You look at these pictures and you can see that these people were just trying to survive.  They were probably happy just to make it through the day alive.

After watching this slide show ask yourself, “I don’t have to live like they did, so what is my problem that I don’t wake up every morning with a smile on my face and laughter in my heart?”

I think of when I was a little girl and lived in a 4 room house with no running water, just a well pump outside for water, no central heating systems, just propane stove in one room.  And by the way there were 7 children with a mother and father living in this 4 room house.  I was just luck and thankful that it wasn’t a tent I was living in and the roof didn’t leak.  (You can read about my story here.)

I look at these pictures of how they lived back in the 1930’s and know I was very fortune.  I did have to work in fields as a child, because that is part of living on a farm, but that was nothing compared to what the children went through in the 1930’s.

I hope you enjoy a look in history and walk away knowing how happy you really are living in this time in history, because things can always be worse.

I do not know the author of this slide show, but I am very thank for his or her work and if someone  see’s it and knows, please let me know so I can give credit where credit is due.

Just send me your email address in the comment box below and I will email you the video with this blog posting link in case you want to reread it after watching the video slide.

Thank you for working with me. I received this in an email myself and I feel it is wonderful.  After you see the video slide get back with me and give me your comments.  It is just made me realize how very fortune we are today, thanks to our forefathers.

Look forward to sending to you the video and hope you enjoy it has much as I did.  I even refer back to it when I think I am having a bad day.  Wakes me right up.

Have a wonderful and Happy… day and I’m grateful that we don’t have to work in such dangers conditions today.

Just Me
Debbie