Charlie Brown

 June 30, 2020

Charlie Brown

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Is the opposite of angry, happy? Maybe not, but let’s role with it.

 

Emerson suggests that anger is a bad place to be, and most people might agree. And yet, anger can be a powerful motivating force.

Anger can help us win a game.

Anger can give us the courage to fight a battle.

Anger can prompt us to make a change.

Maybe anger isn’t all that bad, even if it was proved to be the opposite of happy.

 

Now looking at happy.

Happiness is definitely Emerson’s preference.

 

Remember the song from the 1970’s, “Happiness”?

“Happiness is finding a pencil

Pizza with sausage

Telling the time

Happiness is learning to whistle

Tying your shoe for the very first time

Happiness is playing the drum in your own school band

And happiness is walking hand in hand”

 

I get from the song lyrics that there is no anger in this song.

And what then is the song promoting? If you remember this musical at al,l this song has Charlie Brown singing the first and the last lines of that stanza, and it’s all about his crush that he has on the little red-headed girl.

 

Anger splits us apart.

Happiness brings us together.

 

Take it from Charlie Brown, spend a good sixty seconds today.

 

Rev. Ken