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Happiness inI'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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Ben was right - it's the little things.
I'm so easily amused and pleased by small pleasures every day. At night, I look forward to taking my socks off so I can feel my bare toes wiggling under the covers. - so many more things like this that you would think me imbecilic if I named them all.
So you're like George Costanza, who in a particularly memorable episode of Seinfeld wanted the hotel chambermaid not to tuck in his sheets, to give him that wiggle room?
I agree with Mr. Franklin. Happiness is the instant hot water machine in my kitchen sink! A small yet helpful convenience.
I'm afraid I'm guilty of taking those kinds of conveniences for granted, at least until they're temporarily unavailable. And then you get a reminder of how good they are.
I like a lot this kind of phyilosophy, It reminded me (saving the distances) about what lennon said in his song: "Life is what happens to you while you are bussy making other plans".
My father told me that happines was "being content with whatever you have at any given point in time." Now why that's not simply contentment or settling I have no idea.
Thanks for stopping by, Mariana and Jim. So nice to have other time zones weighing in whilst I'm taking my beauty sleep.
Ben knew the secret to life so long ago. Today it seems much harder to find little things among the chaos - but maybe Ben felt the same way.
I think man has a gift for making our own chaos, and however relative that may seem to various generations, I'm sure his time seemed quite chaotic to folks then. Heck, there was a revolution going on!
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