Last night Rachel, Daddy, and I went to watch her brother play in a basketball game. I wasn't sure how she was going to feel about going, but she can't stay home alone, so she went with us. She grinned the whole time. I'm not sure she watched the game at all, but she smiled a lot. Which was great. And I've been thinking....
We all have desires and wants and needs. I have fortunately never been to the point where I had to lower my definition of what a "need" is to just what it would take to survive. Today I "need" to go to the store to get some eggs, milk, and Rachel's medicine. Could I live without those things? Certainly, but they are neither extravagant nor unreasonable purchases. If I got to the point where I had to say water, beans, and a tent were my only needs, because that's all I could have and it's possible to live that way at least for awhile, I could do that. Bare basic needs.
There are so many things I hope for for my children, but if I could choose just one thing to give them, just the bare basic need, it would be that they be happy. I feel like that's kind of cheating, because that implies that they will have the things necessary to be happy. However, I know people who have lots of "things" who aren't happy. I know people who have what seems to be the perfect home and family who aren't happy. I also know people who appear to have nothing, but yet they are happy. So I guess it's an attitude that I'm hoping for. Whatever occupations they end up in, whatever they choose to do for hobbies, and wherever they choose to live, I hope that they can smile a lot. And I hope their smiles are genuine and beautiful, no matter what.
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