If you google “Quotes about happiness,” you’ll find that many of them revolve around the concept of choice. “I am in charge of how I feel and today I’m choosing happiness.” “Happiness is a decision.” “You will be exactly as happy as you decide to be.” It sounds so simple, doesn’t it? You’re in charge […]
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2020 Anticipation
The first two reflection posts have served their purpose. In the past few days, they’ve prompted me to re-read my journal from 2019 (well, I skimmed it– it was tens of thousands of words long), write a list of my 2020 commandments (I’ll share it soon) and start my why/what/how goal and habit systems for […]
2016 Year In Review: Hopes, Revisited
Last year, on New Year’s Day, I wrote the following hopes for 2016 in my journal. I didn’t print them out or look at them again until this morning, when I was trying to figure out how to write this post, and decided to check back and see if I’d written anything at the start […]
Readers in Love with Characters
Last week was my husband’s and my seventh wedding anniversary; we’ve been a couple for almost 15 years total. A friend of mine asked if we were happily married, and when I said yes, she asked what our secret was. I thought for a few minutes and told her that there were a few. One […]
Fill It Up (What I Need To Be Happy)
The last two weeks have been difficult ones. Aside from the usual busyness of school (it was the first two weeks of lessons and rehearsals for my band program), I was also in a car accident. No one was hurt, thank God, but the emotional stress definitely affected me for awhile; also, I had to […]
Whom Do You Envy?
“He who envies others does not achieve peace.” -Buddha With all due respect to the Buddha, I have to disagree. True, envy is one of the seven deadly sins. Yes, it is poisonous to hold jealousy inside of you, to let your feelings about another person fester. But envy, like judgement, can also be a useful […]