Do I have the twinkle in my eye and a bounce in my step

Have you ever had the feeling that you are truly happy. Alas I have not!!! Am sitting here surrounded by soiled tissues and also new ones, feeling really down in the dumps thanx to the viral affected brain, and questioning myself Am I happy doing what i am doing? Am I truly happy

How do I answer that question I wonder? how do I measure happiness? Do I measure it by the number of times I laugh in a day? Do I measure it by the no of hours I sleep at night ? Or do I measure it by calculating how tired I am by the end of the day? intrigued I looked it up on the net and One of the definitions by the Miriam Webster on line dictionary gives is that happiness is a state of well-being or contentment.

..oh well.... Wow!!!Put like that then i can definitely say that I am in a state of contentment when i am reading a good book lounging in my personal space (all you introverts know what I am talking about), I am also in a state of contentment when I meet up with friends for coffee, when I am in front of the TV with my current craft project in my hand, when I am being useful professionally, when i am binging on good food... now that i look at it my list can go on..,But ultimately something clicked in place. The bottom line is its all you, YOU - the individual who is responsible in being truly happy..

You are responsible to pick a book to read, You are responsible to make reading time, You are responsible to call friends and fix up for that coffee, You are responsible to find that craft project you have been dying to do amidst all the daily unpleasant activity like cleaning, cooking and paying bills.. it is YOU who can make space in your life to be happy!!! Apparently if you mark anything above 5 in the "happiness meter" then you are truly successful in keeping yourself happy.

so, in your own itinerary of daily drudgery make time to laugh at the world, at yourself and if nothing works pick up the phone and call your friend, bitch about life, crib about work, talk of old times laugh on an incident and notice how the world looks so much better!!

P.S I just wrote this article, increasing my happiness quotient to 7!!!!



More readings from the net..
Personal and professional success may lead to happiness but may also engender success. Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people...
Get happy, get successful. It is a good outlook.

Some of the early happiness research is based on a study that followed women from the 1960 Mills College year book. The researchers studied the pictures and picked out the women who had â genuine smiles that involved the muscles around their eyes as well as their mouths, then followed all the women through their lives. The women with the genuine smiles were more likely to be happily married, they lived longer, and they consistently reported themselves as happier than the women who didn’t smile. This works because much of our body language is unconscious and connected to our thoughts. For example, the muscles around the eyes are very difficult to control voluntarily, but crinkle automatically when a person is genuinely happy. You might observe this approach to measure happiness yourself if you happen to see a picture or video of yourself during a happy period.