"Buffet Life"

Giving this item a title, "Nourish", The Happy Guy in the person of David Leonhardt from Canada has sharp eyes in observing and noting the way people live their lives. Be they live happily or unhappily, healthily or unhealthily, fitly or unfitly, ever after or never - the table of choices is theirs to fix. I am in that number of people which he has microscopically scrutinized (figuratively speaking) via his internet laboratory. He is a Pharmacist by profession by the way, who also became a motivator. Perhaps, he not only formulates the best remedy for  any human social misdemeanor, but maybe, he also masters in concocting all collated data of human behaviors and encapsulates them  into a masterpiece called Motivation. The world at large needs perking up, you know.

Meantime, Welcome to David's ala carte or smorgasbord of random thought. This has been sitting here for so long, sadly abandoned, for I consider myself the Queen of Procrastination. I have so many distractions to deal with that always keep me away from doing  my  unfinished  duties; proof of which is a pile of laundry patiently waiting for me to tackle. The only thing I can't procrastinate  is cleaning. Not that I am "Miss Disinfectant" or "Dr OCD" as sometimes my girls would call me, but I find it hard to function in a disorderly environment. This is the reason why I can never be a writer. To be a writer means total  withdrawal from all things that offers comfort and convenience imaginable.

As you enter David's by-the-roadside Cafe, imagine that you are reading a Menu billboard standing by the gateway or footpath entrance. It says:

"Do you prefer a buffet, where you can choose small helpings of lots
of different flavours and food types?

Or do you prefer a table d'hote, with a pre-set selection of items
packaged together?"

The billboard as it happens also contained, and in small print, list of preferences:

I wonder if our preference for eating is a mirror of our preference
for living. Some people spend their whole lives at a single career and
perhaps a hobby or two, constantly perfecting, getting incrementally
better over the years. They live the life of a specialist...a "table

d'hote life".

Others prefer to try different things, change careers several times,
seek variety within each career (and careers that offer maximum
variety) and adopt various hobbies at various times in their lives.
This is the "buffet life".

And here's David's recommendation:

I know I prefer the buffet life as much as buffet restaurants. What
about you? Do your eating preferences also reflect your life
preferences?"

Well,  recommendation or not, I already knew my nourishment preference. Without meaning to abate myself  to indignity, my personal experience in life over the years has ushered me to a Smorgasbord Table of a "buffet life". I suppose circumstances in life vary as they come at different times where ever we happen to be at a certain place that mostly left us no option but to take whatever is on the plate to salvage some inevitable untoward predicaments. Sometimes, a soothsaying cliche "preparation meets opportunity" is not existent to some or simply not applicable to most however gifted, prepared or ready they may be, as they face the battle in life.

So I contend myself with a buffet kind of life, however humble, which is still condimented with happiness one way or another in my own perception and terms. After all, I conform to David's definition of Happiness that makes my "buffet life" worthwhile.

• Happiness is all about being at one with all that has passed, appreciating those experienced we have lived, valuing what has come our way. 

• Happiness is all about living for the moment, living in the present, enjoying all that is around you. 

• Happiness is all about being comfortable with where we are heading, safe in the knowledge that good things are on their way. 

Yes, happiness has a past, a present and a future - David concluded and I agree.

Cheers!