What makes you happy? For me, it's when those I love are content. I especially love to hear my son and husband laugh as they are playing and teasing each other. Or when my son will finally understand a concept that previously eluded him. When I relax on the sofa and the cats curl up by me and doze off, just wanting to have human contact. Little things like getting all green lights if I'am late going somewhere. Or that wonderful feeling of having some free time to just putter around the house, watching the rain or an old movie with a cuppa and a cookie. How about when we notice the first signs of the seasons as they change. Where we live it can be very subtle, so you really have to pay attention. In a world that can sometimes seem very scary, it pays to stop and count your blessings. What makes you happy?
Those are very nice words, c-g. I'm touched. I usually wake up feeling happy. I can hear the girls arguing, my husband getting everything ready before they leave, and the cats either beside me or fighting. I know I will be warm and safe, and I have loved ones who love me. Like you, the small every-day things make me happy.
Waking up to a new day makes me happy and hearing my children laughing, proper belly laughs fills me with love and joy. Hearing them playing make believe makes me happy - I sometimes spy on them, just to watch and hear them play - it has made me cry with joy before. My husband coming home from work to us - he used to ride a fast Japanese motorbike to London, and I used to dread his journey home everyday and hearing that key in the lock filled me with relief and joy. And nature makes me happy. Seeing the new seeds of the season germinating, seeing buds on the trees and blossom in the spring. Freshly fallen snow, or the dew on spiders webs in the autumn. But mostly it is my family. Until I found Mark and had my babies, I don't think I really understood true happiness.
THose are all great - I love the way you all describe happiness. For me it is also the small things that make me happy. I am happy every morning when Little Pan (LP - my German Shepherd) pushes her cold nose on my arm to wake up (and that time it is not even 6:30 yet). Then I know all is well, I check up on my daughter (She used to be the only one sharing the hosue with me as my sone used to live with his dad). These days happiness is doubled -now LP still wakes me up - with added responsibility - hubby also gets woken up and I have a running partner. (OK He does not like running - so he cycles while I run.) But is does make me happy. My children make me happy - to have all under one roof. Fiddling in my garden makes me happy - seeing new plants and one that survive despite the odds stacked against it - makes me happy. Gosh I could go on.. Hiking makes me happy. It was hiking that brought hubby and I together after all those years....
