Been feeling down lately and need to pull myself up.
Need to force myself to think happy thoughts or I'll go crazy.
So today, I'm grateful for :
1.) The summer rain. And the sound it makes as I type this blog. And the much needed cool it brings to this terribly humid place called Manila.
2.) The smell of home-cooked tocino my husband lovingly prepared tonight. And all the other meals he cooks for us. For the last five years. I feel so loved.
3.) The wisdom I find inside a book I read today. And the time I found to read a book finally from ignoring my laptop and not reading my work emails.
4.) Seeing my husband having a good time with his "guilty pleasures". Thank goodness he knows himself and what he wants. His strength rubs off on me.
5.) For the email I received from my childhood best friend telling me about her newborn baby. It reminded me of what's truly important.
I do have a lot more to be grateful for (including my shopping spree high today!). This is so liberating. Will have to do this more often.
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"if you're stuck with lemons, go make a lemonade" ... this is my blog about making the most out of my 3-year stint here in Singapore...to force myself to look at the brighter side of this job assignment and be grateful for this necessary sacrifice...
2 comments:
at bakit nawala ang lah? Is that a sign? hehe ;P
seriously, I'm beginning to learn that happiness doesn't just appear from nowhere; it's up to you to find it/make it happen :)
Actually I've read somewhere that being happiness is:
50% Genetic = some people are more predisposed to be happy
10% (or was it 20%)= Environment= how you grow up, the ambiance/people you hang with
The final ingredient, which is 30-40% is PERSONAL CHOICE.
Since there is nothing we can do about our genetics, we just have to work on the other two levers. And bulk of it really is personal choice.
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