Happy Humanity is that thing we all share,
That balance and growth that comes from within,
It’s the part of us that feels and allows us to care,
And shows us the Happy Human we’ve always been.
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Ep. 451 - Happy Humanity
We begin as always
with the Happy Creed.
We believe in Happy,
in Balance and Growth,
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.
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My Happy Friends!
Do people puzzle you? Do their motivations seem strange, their actions weird?
Well, they shouldn’t. They’re navigating the same Human Condition as you are.
Eating, sleeping, loving, losing--just like the rest of us, since humanity first appeared.
Their methods may vary, but the goals remain universal and unchanged, near and far.
Once you accept this fact, people start making a lot more sense,
Instead of someone being unrelatable and mysterious, they’re human and all too real,
They’re messy and concerned and cautious and intense,
They’re capable of all the things that all the rest of us are, that’s the deal.
My mom used to tell me not to get mad at my bullies for bullying me!
I thought she was cracked! I should pity the poor dears for being so mean?
But she insisted that they were only bullies because people bullied them, probably,
And so they deserved compassion and understanding, which I considered obscene!
But as I grew up, met more people, did a few mean things myself, I understood,
She was right! Meanness comes from meanness, whereas Humanity is our core,
And that’s where Happy lives--within each of us, sometimes hidden, but always good,
We can ignore it if we wish, wallow in our own cruelty, or recall what it was like before.
Before we let the world confuse us, frighten us, and make us think we don’t belong,
But Humanity is all of us--it’s for us, it’s by us and composed of us--we’re the same,
Some big, some small, some old, some young, but all of us Happy and strong,
Just trying to navigate Life moment to moment, which can seem like a shell game.
A scam, a trick, a fool’s gamble where suckers always lose thinking they’re so smart,
But that’s what I’m saying, it’s like that for everyone, for the haves and the have-nots,
We act mean not because we are mean, but because we think we’re playing our part,
Do unto others before they can do unto you, grab the golden apple before it rots!
Happy Humanity is that thing we all share,
That balance and growth that comes from within,
It’s the part of us that feels and allows us to care,
And shows us the Happy Human we’ve always been.
Haha
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