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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2008-08-05 02:30 pm
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Five Reasons to be Happy

It's well established (seriously, they've done the research) that one of the things that will reduce your stress levels is to think at the end of each day about five things that you have to be happy about.

So, in an effort to counter all the doom and gloom on much of my flist, here are my personal reasons to be happy today.

1.  After 28 years, I'm still happily married to a cuddly man with a beard who is kind and loving and sexy and a good cook and a dab hand at gardening and DIY and a great person to play board games with and good in bed and just generally nice all round!

2.  I have two amazingly gorgeous sons who have managed to beat all the statistics about how horrible the youth of today are by being intelligent, helpful, kind and loving.

3.  We own the house we live in.  No mortgage to hang around our necks.

4.  We have a garden and an allotment.  Both causes for relaxation and fresh food.

5.  I have lot of books.  Books, my Precious....  We reads them, we does.

Consider this a meme and post your own reasons, no matter how trivial for being happy.

(If I were adding number 6, I would quote from  a Heinlein book that I can't recall properly, which says words to the effect that any world that contains little girls and butterflies cannot possibly be all bad)

[identity profile] djelibeybi-meg.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. Time Enough For Love.

[identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's a great idea, and I'm not surprised it reduces stress

[identity profile] pennski.livejournal.com 2008-08-05 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm delighted to spot at least 13 reasons lurking in point one alone.

Hurrah!

Just what I needed to read after a brain-stretching day.

[identity profile] vjezkova.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
I like it a lot - hopefully I will be able to find some more time to try my own.

[identity profile] melodyclark.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Wise words ... now if I could only remember them through my gloom. ;) lol