Choosing Happiness

It seems that life is a series of curve balls.  As you stand at your home plate are you ready for the curve ball or only for the perfect pitch?  I have swung at and missed many curves....Each has taught me something; patience, strength, flexibility, honesty, empathy, sympathy, compassion, but mostly I've learned to live each day, each minute.  I don't want to wish my life away....it is human nature to wish for the good times, "I can't wait for the weekend", "If I can just get through this week", "tomorrow".....a series of skipping your minutes.  

I have not lived a charmed life, it has taken me a long time to realize it doesn't matter, what does matter is what I have done with my life.  Am I happy?  Am I where I want to be?  I am happy and I am where I am and that is fine.  I have few regrets, I like that.

If we get all that we want, are we happier?  Looking at the lives of the rich and famous we see that having everything does not equal happiness.  Happiness comes from within......seeing my grandson pucker his little lips for a good-bye kiss as I put on my coat, my daughter texts me a sad face when I say I don't feel like walking, hearing my youngest daughter call me 'mamacita', having my son care so much that I might be disappointed in him, my granddaughter says "I love my grammy"....these are reasons for happiness, real happiness.  Happiness is the way my heart feels at these moments and I am grateful for each of these moments.  Walking on a quiet country road hand in hand with the sun shining......moments in time, happy single moments adding up to happiness. 

I think how on cold or snowy winter days people complain longing for the summer and then complaining on hot, humid July days.  Is  it not better to see the beauty after a snowfall?  

I will try to look at each day for what it is, a day of life, a day of possibility.  

Day 85 of 365
Choose Happiness.....