Doing what you like is freedom,
liking what you do is happiness.
I think the more ingrained in life we become (the older we are, the stronger our friendships, the more responsibility we bear upon our shoulders), the less freedom we are granted. And so our happiness depends not upon being free to do what we like, but finding happiness within our lot in life: bringing joy to the less-than-thrilling job, transforming an awkward social encounter into a delightful exchange and taking pleasure in the weekly grocery shopping trip. For it is not life that brings us happiness, but we who bring happiness to life.
This photograph was taken by Take Me Vintage Shopping.
3 comments:
This post is so beautiful. Short and sweet and 100% true.
I agree with the other Kimberley (great minds huh?). I think we tend to forget that it is the way we look at life and how we interpret events rather than what occurs. If you manage to keep this post in mind 80% of the time, I think life will seem so very bright.
PS: I'm not sure why but I can't add your blog to my Google Reader. Just thought I'd give the heads up. :) xx
Thank you Kimberleys :)
On Oprah once (embarrassing how much of my accumulated wisdom is derived from her show!) a psychologist described a modern phenomena she calls "destination fixation" ie "I'll be happy when *** happens..." - which is just a recipe for discontent. The better, and much more fulfilling, approach is to create joy within our current situations :) xx
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