Happiness

 

"If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating a child, growing double dahlias or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator, striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life 24 crowded hours of each day."

— W. Beran Wolfe

Have you ever had one of those days/weeks where it seems everything that could go wrong does go wrong? I had one of those days last week and then surprise my bosses gave me 2 days off this week, so I thought things were looking up, then we went and had our taxes done. Surprise again - we get to pay in this year, and quite a large chunk of change actually. It's depressing.

I was flipping through SoulPancake last night and stopped on the section about happiness. And it really changed the way I look at all of the stuff that is seeming to go wrong. This morning I defined what happiness is to me, here's what I came up with

Happiness Isn't

• Getting a tax refund
• Having money for a new car
• Having everything you could ever want
• Can't be bought
• Isn't a destination
• Wanting more

Funny how all of these things have to do with material possessions...

Happiness Is

• Spending time with loved ones
• Being content with what you have
• A state of mind 
• Enjoying you life
• Spending all day on the couch watching Netflix
• Tim
• Wanting more
• A new pair of shoes

What does happiness mean to you?

Pop Your Problems

Remember me telling you about SoulPancake? Well, I completed another challenge. I popped my problems. It was really simple—blow up balloons,  write a problem or something that makes you angry on each one, then pop them with something sharp. Simple and therapeutic. I purposefully didn't take pictures showing what I wrote, because they were pretty personal. But I will share one with you; I've been doing my 10K training for 3 weeks and my body doesn't look any different.

I'm not really planning on running a 10K, but I needed some sort of work-out schedule, so that I would actually go to the gym. And yes, maybe it is asking too for 3 weeks to make a visible difference, but I still wish I could see my thighs and love handles shrinking. I do feel better though, well not today. I think I'm getting sick, but the last 3 weeks I have felt accomplished.