Thursday, January 20, 2011

What makes you happy?

An article read to me last night by my wife, Kathy, prompted this post. Normally, I'm like most people, I'd rather read the thing myself but she was insistent and I was intrigued.

It isn't about the big things that happen in life that make me happy. It's all those little things that add up to a great day. The kind of day that when your head hits the pillow, you let out a self satisfied ahhhhhhh.

For instance, the fact that my dogs are always so delighted to see me makes me happy. Knowing that at the end of a long day, I have some supremely soft and warm casual pants to lounge around in, makes me happy. We moved a small trashcan in our kitchen out and moved a nicer and larger one with a self closing lid into the space it left. (Makes for fewer trips outside to the trash bin and keeps the trash hidden away). Little things.

Looking outside today at the sunshine, blue skies and the intracoastal, made me smile. I'm happy. What makes you happy?

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