Happiness Is a Chosen Path
Every single day for nearly a year now, Susan Minarik has been posting her photos and observations about happiness on her blog, High on Happiness. To say that Susan’s disposition is sunny is like saying the Grand Canyon is a dimple. She simply sees nothing but wonder in everything she turns her attention to.
And when she writes, it all comes out sounding like poetry – all of it. Here’s a recent post of hers that illustrates the point beautifully.
Enjoy.
Happiness Like a River
By Susan K Minarik
When it comes right down to it, it doesn’t matter what you know about happiness. It’s how much happiness you feel that counts. Well, maybe not how much, as how deeply, how purely its river runs inside you.
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And maybe not even that. Maybe we’re inside the river. Maybe it’s right there all the time, right this moment, crystalline clear and just waiting for us to taste its fragrance, to feel it lapping against our eyes, pretending to be light.
Maybe it is light. Maybe we’re like fishes, swimming in a river of light. Maybe we’re made of it, our organs and hairs and atoms all sloshing merrily in its time currents and jubilant waves.
What if we knew? What if we knew we were inside happiness all the time, and it was inside us? How would it feel? What would we do?
Would we celebrate its still places? It’s warm and quiet pools? Would we see how far we could dive into its depths? Would we cavort in and out of its waves to touch the sunbeams and starlight of its next velvety dimension? Would we test our strength by leaping up its cascading falls?
What colors would we wear? Would we swim alone or in happiness schools? Would we play in the forests of seaweed, or glide through flows of glistening ice?
Oh, the choices we could make! The wonders we could see! If only we knew. If only we knew.
Susan K. Minarik is the creator of the High on Happiness blog, where every day brings yet another way to discover that happiness is waiting and ready to be enjoyed.
Back to Charles
If you liked this brief piece, I’d like to recommend one more. It’s a delightful little fable titled Opening to Happiness – A Happiness Tale.
But I have to warn you. Once you start reading Susan’s writing, it’s hard to stop. You might even become addicted, as I have.
At any rate, it’s all fun. And happiness.
Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles
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Charles
Susan’s writing is AWESOME. I joined her email list and shared her link with my FaceBook and Twitter contacts. We ALL can use a little more happiness in our daily lives and Susan has a wonderful gift of delivery. Simply beautiful!
You know, over the years you’ve shared some pretty darned good stuff with your readers. I’m going to rank this right up there with some of the best. Thank you so much for bringing Susan’s blog to my attention. Reading it will be part of my daily ‘start-up’ and I’ll dip in from time to time during the day whenever I need a refreshing pause. This is good stuff… very good stuff!
All the best from Toronto,
Russ