"Happiness Project"
I’d pick up this book in my university bookstore with
expectation it would be a lot of list of how to be happy. But when I learnt
that the author, Gretchen Rubin, chose to use a story line approach rather than
a textbook style format, and the font size quite smile, I kind of lost my
interest in reading the whole book. Maybe because that time I was quite busy
with school work and part-time job, made me think that finishing the book as
early as possible—like I always do—would be somehow bothersome to me.
However, since I bought it on early November last year and
how it only gathered dust untouched around my bookshelf corner, I decided to
start reading it again. Anyway, it’s about happiness, right? And instead of
reading it fast, I read it quite slow, enjoying each moment and development the
author had about her happiness project every month. It came to my surprise,
that the list of how to become happy that the author had listed out in the book
is actually what I am aiming to complete this year as my new resolution. Either
of that, or my way of think on specific things had changed without I
realized—more matured.
When I read Happiness Project, I am quite interested with
how Gretchen made some list of way to become happier. Things like “Act the way
I want to feel”, “Be polite and be fair”, “Lighten up”, etc. And I decided to have my own list, but
instead of I am making a list where I think
hard of it and force myself to keep
it, the list would based on my changes
lately and how I manage to keep it. I
often made resolution list, but couldn’t manage myself to keep it after about a
month. And in the end, I feel either frustrated with myself or don’t care
anymore about the list. So, here’s the deal. For the next 12 posts, I’ll post
about these lists. To be honest, I even haven’t filled out half of the list, since
it’s still on progress. But anyway, just enjoy and see you on next post!
