What Is It?

One night last week, or should I say early morning, the heavy construction outside my apartment was unrelenting, thus sleep was a stranger to me. In between storming around the apartment uttering, no yelling out cuss words, I took a break with man's best friend; the TV remote.

As I was scanning through the various red-eyed infomercials "you gotta have one of these, you can't live without it" yelling pitchmen expounding the life changing benefits of their latest paycheck providing gadgets, I came across a movie that I had not seen in a long while.

A bit of commercial drivel that did produce one Academy Award winning performance, City Slickers caught my eye and I decided to watch. A nice distraction from the heavy construction. I was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed the movie. But there was one scene that seemed to really catch my attention and has been banging around in my head ever since.

It was the scene just before Billy Crystal has to shove his hands into a downed cow to help deliver his friend "Norman" the calf. Jack "Curly" Palance, the Academy Award winner of the movie and Crystal are on their horses rounding up strays and Curly is telling Crystal that every year, City Slickers of his age come up here for a couple of weeks hoping to fix what is wrong in their lives for the other 50. Curly tells Crystal that he knows the secret to having a happy life and holds up one finger... no not that finger his index finger, and states "It's one thing." Crystal then asks, "Well what is that one thing?" and Curly states, "That's what you have to figure out."

So that's what's been banging around in my head for the last week or so... the one thing. What is that one thing that makes me happy, or will make me happier, happiest? Well dear blog reader, I am still striving to find that one thing that will work for me; have you found the one thing that will make you happy? Let me know if you've found it.