Does everyone get the blues in January and February? This is definitely my least favorite time of the year! I was reading a book that Rebecca loaned me called "Eat, Pray, Love", and I am trying to take the following passage to heart:
"people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck,something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax in maintaining it, you must maintain a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."
It sure seems like a mighty effort when it's 15 degrees outside, and there are so many responsibilities in this life! I am trying to keep up the fight!
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I love that quote. I do think that happiness takes effort. Effort to find it and then effort to maintain it. I work on this all the time. Contentment & peace are key to happiness for me.
Hope today is a less "blah" day today!
~Rebecca
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