{"id":21625,"date":"2026-03-11T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/guideposts-classics-shirley-temples-happiest-moment\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:12:34","slug":"guideposts-classics-shirley-temples-happiest-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/better-living\/positive-thinking\/guideposts-classics-shirley-temples-happiest-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Guideposts Classics: Shirley Temple’s Happiest Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we drove away from the house on the hill, we left her standing in the California sunshine, a pretty woman in her mid-thirties with blue eyes and chestnut hair and a kind of cheerful serenity about her. Ahead of us, on the horizon, we could see the soaring San Francisco Bay Bridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you frowning about?\u201d my wife asked. \u201cThat was a wonderful visit. And she\u2019s so friendly and relaxed and … and normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d I said, \u201cCompletely. That\u2019s the trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Celebrating<\/a>\u201cTrouble? I think it\u2019s marvelous. She was a great movie star and could easily be spoiled and selfish and vain and neurotic. But she\u2019s none of those things. She\u2019s a good wife and mother. She\u2019s a happy person. And not just because she\u2019s a celebrity. In spite of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree with you,\u201d I said. \u201cBut as a writer I have a problem. Happiness is tough to write about. It\u2019s like describing a sunset. Once you\u2019ve said it\u2019s beautiful, you\u2019ve said it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a little three-letter word,\u201d my wife said, \u201cthat you can apply to anything: why<\/em>. Why is a sunset? Why is happiness? Why, specifically, is Mrs. Charles Black, formerly the famous Shirley Temple, now a completely balanced and fulfilled human being? Why?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t tell us,\u201d I said glumly.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh,\u201d said my wife, \u201cbut she did. She told us, and her house told us, and the pictures of her family told us, and her flowers and her books told us, and her child\u2019s lavender bedroom told us, and her bright sparkling kitchen told us … oh, hundreds of things! If you\u2019d just stop being difficult and think back, you\u2019d see<\/em>…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good to see you,\u201d Shirley Temple had said, \u201calthough things are a bit hectic around here. Lori\u2014she\u2019s our 10-year-old\u2014has the measles, and I\u2019m feeling a little headachy myself … I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had them. Have you? That\u2019s good! Come and have some coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n

To a writer interviewing a celebrity\u2014or anyone, for that matter\u2014first impressions are important. And they\u2019re not arrived at consciously.<\/p>\n

You see your subject; you\u2019re aware of the background; you hear the first conventional phrases. But all the time you are listening on a kind of psychic level, groping for the essence of the person.<\/p>\n

This woman: friendly, outgoing, not shy, no self-consciousness, no wariness. This house: comfortable, but not pretentious. Neatness and quietness. A warm center with a feeling of distance surrounding it, perhaps because it\u2019s a hill-top home with a far-reaching view…<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThose pictures?\u201d said Shirley Temple. \u201cYes, everyone looks happy because they were happy occasions. One was the golden wedding anniversary of my parents. The other was the golden wedding anniversary of my husband Charlie\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n

“Imagine having two such events in the same family within six months! And everybody\u2019s still going strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifty years and 50 years: a century of wisdom and happiness to draw on. That explains a lot. You can inherit certain things without even knowing that you\u2019ve inherited them: outgoingness, good manners, an instinctive concern for other people, a sense of obligation to life, a feeling of gratitude\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been terribly lucky,\u201d Shirley Temple said. \u201cI\u2019ve bad such a wonderful life that the few mishaps or misfortunes seem very small.<\/p>\n

“Think of all the things I\u2019ve had! Parents who were strong and wise enough to protect me from the pressures that might have been damaging when I was a little girl. A marvelous girls\u2019 school\u2014Westlake\u2014when I was 12 that brought me out of the make-believe world I\u2019d lived in for so long.<\/p>\n

“Now a marriage that\u2019s completely happy. Charlie and I have backgrounds and values so similar that we even think alike! And, of course, three wonderful children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I have my community activities: I work as a volunteer every Monday at the Children\u2019s Health Council in Palo Alto. And my occasional television work; I like that, so long as it doesn\u2019t interfere with my family. If I thought it bothered Charlie or upset tile children I\u2019d give it up tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Values: a key word when it comes to this business of happiness. You have to know what you want froth life, for yourself, and for others. Take the value of individuality, for instance…<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCharlie and I,\u201d said Shirley Temple, \u201chave a horror of forcing a child into a pattern that may please the parent but is all wrong for the child. We think children should be allowed to develop their own personalities in their own way\u2014within a framework of good manners and good behavior, of course.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still get letters, sometimes, from doting mothers who tell me that their little girl looks just like the Shirley Temple of 30 years ago and has even learned some of my old dance routines.<\/p>\n

“I always try to discourage them. The little girl that I once was had her place in time and in show business, but she\u2019s gone now, and so is that era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or the value of shared affection:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCharlie and I almost always eat supper early with the children. We feel that if we all can be together for at least one hour a day, we can give the children a sense of security about family life that they can get in no other way.<\/p>\n

“We try to keep that meal apart as a sort of special family hour. No television, no telephone calls, no outside interruptions. We take turns saying a simple grace. Sometimes I read from a set of Bible stories that I loved as a child. My children love them too.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the value of perspective:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we moved into this house a few years ago, we brought with us a lot of scrapbooks from my child-actress days. And Charlie suggested keeping them here in the living room, but I asked him to put them in the attic.<\/p>\n

“They may interest our grandchildren some day. But I believe you have to live in the present, not the past or even the future.<\/p>\n

“Charlie\u2019s mother tells a story that expresses my philosophy very well. Once, when he was little, he asked her to name the happiest moment of her life. \u2018Why this one, right now,\u2019 she said. \u2018But what about the day you were married?\u2019 Charlie wanted to know.<\/p>\n

“\u2018Well.\u2019 she said, \u2018my happiest moment then was right then. You can only live the moment you\u2019re living in. So to me that\u2019s always the happiest moment.\u2019 And she\u2019s right, you know: the happiest moment is now!\u201d<\/p>\n

The happiest moment is now. Maybe that\u2019s her secret. Maybe that\u2019s why she\u2019s as serene and adjusted and well-balanced as she is.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ahead of us now the skyscrapers of San Francisco were standing up to greet us. In a few more hours my wife and I would be home again with our own children, our own way of life.<\/p>\n

To be yourself, not some artificially assumed personality. To live one day at a time. To accept the joy of being alive in the one moment when you can really feel it\u2014the moment that is now…<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve stopped frowning,\u201d my wife said. \u201cIt was<\/em> a good visit, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d I said. \u201cVery good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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