Feb 13, 2010
Seven Days of Happiness
It’s been a long while since I’ve written in any detail about my happiness project. A large part of the reason for this is that 2009 has been a psycho hose beast of a year for me, and I’ve been harbouring a feeling that it would be somehow disingenuous to write about happiness when I’ve been so often miserable and struggling to stay afloat.
On closer examination, this is a pretty damn silly approach. It’s easy enough to talk about sustainable well-being and happiness when things are going well, but I suspect that it’s far more meaningful to talk about applying these things when life is hard going.
And so last month I found myself captive with a netbook on a three hour bus ride, trying to recall just where I left off. Seeing as my list of topics had grown intimidatingly huge, I started to write a number of posts, with the intention of posting one a day for a week. And then I left the half-edited text files on my netbook and didn’t post them. Ahem.
However, today I am sitting on the verandah in the sunshine, with a hammock and a bottle of water, watching the little fishes swim circles in my barrel pond. Today, it seems like a good day to write.
