It’s no trick the size of the treat doe matter

 WHEN IT COMES TO TRICK OR TREAT AND SEEKING PEACE AND JOY SIZE MATTERS....WELL SORT OF...

So a major retailer in our area has been running ads for Hallloween treats and other spoooky stuff.  They said they had (leaving out brand names) candies in king size, full size, snack size, and fun size.  I suspect it’s easy to understand “king” size as, of course this was determined  by decree of King John  right there in the fine print of the Magna Carta  in 1215 and revised by several King Olaf declarations in Sweeden... so if we were to  follow  the logic here why aren’t the other sizes labeled like  mattresses making candy king size, queen size, full size, twin, and perhaps infant size?  So king size and “full size make some sense...but we have full size cars and then we have compact and subcompact so why don’t we have compact Snickers and subcompact Almond Joy?  We all know what snack size is... it’s the size that we eat  three of when we really need a snack.   Surely one person’s snack is another person’s full size and only a nibble-like fun size for someone else and for that odd ant still surviving  these days that snack is mother of a king sized banquets!  

Now let’s look at “fun” size.  So employers expect most workers to do king sized work for fun size wages.  Dentists generally collect  full size or king sized money for fun sized hole in our teeth and many politicians  make super king-sized promises and generally  deliver some crumbled. Up melted version of a fun-sized result that you have to scrape off the dash of your car because  it got lost under the handful of campaign mail they send out.  

Now let’s flip the script....

A lot of people preach seeking happiness and peace  as if  it is a King-Sized  destination.  It seems however, that seeking and experiencing peace and joy rarely comes in  the super deluxe expected ways assumed by most self-help and success coaches.  Maybe  we need to savor  the fun-sized experiences and experiments in life... really being aware that the moments are  limited and temporary and yet the meanings can linger.  Maybe if we buy into the fact that there will be enough fun-sized experience to share with everyone we will reach out and share our awareness  in the moment rather than  rushing to the next house where we believe king-sized peace. And joy are going to be dropped into our plastic pumpkin. Or pillow case.   You know life happens in fun-sized moments...so share and enjoy.