The Road to Happiness by Ari Rosenberg
Thursday, July 23rd 2009
The staff had been waiting anxiously while the campers traveled from Far and Wide. For too long, Camp Simcha Special had felt empty and lonely, as its campers went through their year. Almost as if Camp Simcha Special were alive, its future staff and campers could feel the camps pain. They all waited, counting the days go by as if something were missing. And then it came: Day One.
Before the campers had even set eyes on the camp, its counselors, waiters, specialty staff, and others were already experiencing what makes it unlike any place in the world. Singing, dancing and laughing with such sincere joy: where else can one fall in love in one day with such a place? Where else are the sad– happy, the bored– excited, and the ordinary– Extraordinary?
When the campers did come, they were welcomed in with open arms…then sandwiched. Greeted excitedly with roars and loud chanting of their names, it was as if they were a sports team coming back home after a win to be greeted by their town as heroes. Though these tiny heroes were also welcomed with the warmest smiles and biggest hugs, as a family greets one of it’s own after a trip that to both traveler and greeter alike, just took too long.
Smiles abound it soon became impossible not to catch the epidemic of happiness spreading from cheek to cheek. In all our lives, we shall never forget that there is a road in Camp Simcha Special that brings all people in, but only happy ones out. How special it is to be ?????!