If You’re Happy and You
Know It
If you went
to Public School or know someone who did, then you know the Happy Song. Not the
one by Bobby McFerrin; the one he wrote at the last minute to fill space on an
album.
Don’t
Worry Be Happy became the hit that was played over and over and over again.
And I’m not
talking about the Happy song from the
movie Despicable Me, by Pharrell
Williams; but now that I’m thinking about it, it seems that everybody loves a
Happy song.
I’m talking
about the Happy song that told us to clap our hands and stomp our feet; to say I Am and
to do all three.
The most
powerful thing about the song that Boomers sang as we marched around the
playground is the fact that the song
informed us that if we were happy and knew it, then our face should reflect it.
“If you’re happy and you know it then
your face should surely know it, if you’re happy and you know it say I Am”
It’s true,
happiness seeps up from your heart to your face and out through your smile.
Happiness will not be still, silent, nor
does it remain hidden.
Happiness,
like the songs of old and new is contagious. It flows from heart to heart and
face to face.
Try it,
smile at someone and keep smiling. If they don’t smile back, move on to someone
else and try again.
Keep smiling until you know that you
need it. When you do, you’ll see that the world does too.
Be you, be well, be
happy.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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