Saturday, January 28, 2012

direction

this quote to me is kind of like the whole "it's the journey not the destination" thing .... you don't get happy once you get there ... you are happy on the trip .... all the little moments of happy are what make the big happy ....

gretchin rubin, the happiness project author, she's always analyzing the ways and means of happiness ... this quote makes me think of her .... have you read her book? i have ... and a pal of mine recommended it to me last week or so ... so she and i got to talk about how much we love the notion of happiness being analyzed ... dissecting what makes you happy versus what makes other folks happy ....

for instance?
-pickles ... great joy for my dad .... the anti joy for me ....
-college football ... great joy for mr.e.beck.artist ... does nothing for me ....
-chocolate... great joy for my sisterinlaw roberta ... great joy for best pal dana ... good for me ... not on my great joy list though ....
-mario kart game on wii ... great joy for boy.beck.artist, girl.beck.artist and little e.beck.artist ... and ... well ... great joy for me too .... i'm going o have to make some time for that this weekend!

yup ... i love video games .... and not chocolate ... isn't that weird? but it's nice to be able to recognize your own happiness ....

what's making you happy these days?

1 comment:

artmom said...

what makes me happy? Painting or working in the studio, especially with others; Chocolate; family and good times with family (that includes all the great friends who are like family, too! reading your blogs!