As a therapist I spend much of my time working with people from all walks of life to, in essence, become happier however I rarely spend time focused on my own happiness. I, like most people I know, spend my day focused on tasks -what's done...what needs to be done...what can be put off until tomorrow. After reading The Happiness Project I've been trying focus more on happiness - What makes me happy? How can I make others happy? How can I find more joy in the day-to-day? This all brings me back to the woman at the co-op today. One of Gretchen's Four Splendid Truths that she talks a lot about is just that "the days are long but the years are short" - reading that struck me. It brought me to think of how much Lucia has changed in the past short 9 months and I promised myself that I would work harder to enjoy the messy, giggly girl she has come to be. Then came today, we've been stuck in the house for days (well just 3 to be exact) first because of the hurricane, then because Lucia has been a sicky (& cranky) baby and I tried for the majority of the day to get her to take a nap with little success and then finally out of frustration and a desire to get out of the house we went to the co-op. Little did I know that was the best thing I could have done all day, I got some perfectly ripe tomatoes, some tasty manchego, some local beef chorizo, a woman gave me a perfect reminder just when I needed it and Lucia is now sleeping peacefully beside me.
