happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
View from the Crossroads
Inside our apartment, my children share a large bedroom which looks out over a manicured lawn, a still-busy road and the parking lot. During quarantine, they have been able to track evidence of the world's continued motion from the safety of their room. It's peaceful how headlights and street lamps blur through droplets of rain on the windowpane sometimes at night.
By Kelli Lynn Grey6 years ago in Motivation
Musings through the window
As I gazed out of the cozy, oval shaped, oak rimmed window the sunlight greeted me like the embrace of a dear old friend. I noticed it gather in a spherical beam, dancing like a whimsical troupe of Russian ballet dancers. My eyes lingered on this exquisite display and mused upon how perfectly it timed with the 60’s tune that gently sang from the radio in the kitchen. I smiled a small, bashful smile as it nostalgically threw me back into fond memories of my father and I dancing together back when I was small enough to dance on his feet. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to savour the warm feelings of joy and gratitude this memory brought me.
By Elle Dechen6 years ago in Motivation
A Stained Glass Window
I came across a wood framed stained glass window at an online garage sale, when I did the porch pick up I noticed a dandelion in a crack of the walkway. I picked it and blew making a wish, smiling with a vision for my new find. As I reached down to pick up the window, from the opened door I hear a voice asking me not to blow any more weeds in their yard. Sorry!
By Sofie Roman6 years ago in Motivation
AMIDST ALL THE MADNESS
A day I took away from the chaos of the online world! The world of social media, the news, the madness surrounding the current situation. Away from the personal space of so called my room. Away from everything that gave me the feel of any sort of personal space. I put my hoodie on, grab my headphones and play on some soothing music, with every beat of the acoustic playing in my ear, I take a step outside the house and walk aimlessly into the day.
By nikita kherodiya6 years ago in Motivation
As Unstoppable As Stars
Known as the father of Environmentalism and the founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir said about his childhood in Scotland, “With red-blooded playmates, wild as myself, I loved to wonder in the fields to hear the birds sing, and along the seashore to gaze and wonder at the shells and seaweeds, eels and crabs in the pools among the rocks when the tide was low; and best of all to watch the waves in awful storms thundering on the black headlands and craggy ruins of the old Dunbar Castle when the sea and the sky, the waves and the clouds, were mingled together as one.”
By Terri Kalloch6 years ago in Motivation
Serendipity
4/24/20 Look forward, Merry May, yes, now. Last October, I got into the habit of chasing the setting sun. Riding my bike forward as fast as I could, I felt my fast punching heart, the speedy wind crossing through my hair, and the blurry sceneries I left behind. I fixed my eyes at the sunset, resisting to move away. The sunset moved closer and closer like a dolly-in shot. I forgot about time, until night poured blue and black ink onto a light-blue paper. I gazed at the vanishing sunset and felt more confident about life. How I wished this beautiful scenery could last forever.
By MerryMay Ma6 years ago in Motivation
Through the Looking Glass
Just a normal day, in Upstate New York. On a languorous 80 degree Sunday. The aqua colored water bottle sitting across from me is half filled, the freshly washed strawberries are waiting to be eaten. My desk top is filled with papers upon papers. My cellular device is currently at 14% and the laptop I'm currently using is at a battery percentage of 100. I hear the sounds of people going about their day.
By 𝐵𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓉𝒶𝓃𝓎 𝑀. 6 years ago in Motivation
The After
There is calm before the storm as well as after. In a time when all I want to do, we want to do is go outside, it’s not easy during a thunderstorm. It is almost a cruel joke to have a storm in Texas during a quarantine when every other year the state would be in a drought. The one time Texans don’t wish for rain we get it. Hours stretch longer, and mood drops even further into a grey abyss than before; but when the storm is over, I can’t help but want another one if it means the sky takes on a face like it did in the picture. From inside my house, the windows filled with orange light that seemed to beckon an audience to see the aftermath of the chaos that was raining down upon our home not thirty minutes earlier.
By Mady Evans6 years ago in Motivation
