I think the easiest way to stay happy is to appreciate as much as you can.

There is so much beauty in life that people tend to miss. Maybe because they don’t see it, maybe because it is easier to miss it or maybe because things in their lives are so bad they can’t see the beautiful.

When I was 11 and about to move up to high school my friends and I decided that we wanted to stay the exact same as we were then. I’m not saying that everyone should stay the same, in fact change is really good for you! We meant it in the sense that we were happy. We were the perfect mix between child and teenager. We understood all the pressures and responsibilities ahead of us and we would tackle them when we had too but we wanted to enjoy life! We wanted to be able to jump in the puddles on the way home and to enjoy cloud gazing. We knew that there was a balance that was needed, between growing up and staying fun.

I then got to high school and was getting wayy too happy and overexcited about next to nothing (probably jacket potato for lunch or something) when people almost started making fun of me for it. My tutor stepped in and said’ “Simple minds, simple pleasures” which then fuelled their taunting. He immediately stopped everyone and spoke to us all about finding pleasures in small things as he has never met anyone as happy as me and maybe everyone could learn from me and he felt he was. I then felt so proud that I could do this and that I had inspired people and felt again that I never wanted to change that.

I think if you can find magic and happiness in somewhat insignificant everyday things you will be happier in general. It makes sense right? because if everything makes you happy, you will gain more happiness and that will hopefully outweigh all the rubbish! They say that is takes 3 acts of happiness to outweigh a ‘sad’ act. So clearly if you have more things that give you happiness you can outweigh the sadness much quicker and keep it away!! 

I’m not saying that it’s easy. And I’m not saying that sometimes there will be days where there isn’t a lot of happiness in your life unfortunately but hopefully sooner or later you will be able to find something to make you happy!! 

People have found better ways to say this and one person in particular is Richard Curtis as well as every other wonderful person who worked on the film About Time! If you have not seen it I highly recommend a watch! And bring on life!

xoxo

This is a series I want to start and it’s all about happiness!

The main thing I work towards in life is happiness and one of my main aims in life is to spread happiness. I hope that this series will help me do more of what I want, being happy and spreading happiness.

I plan to talk about all kinds of happiness. I think happiness can come from many different things. A few things i think boost happiness include;

Being appreciative,
Being thankful,
Getting help, if needed,
Being kind to others,
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses,
and your physical and mental health,

Each instalment I will focus on something I do or have done that makes me happy. It is purely because it makes me happy but if it makes others happy in the process surely that’s a win. win, win?!

To share a memory that makes me happy right now!

It was a day off from camp, a day where you really should be happy because you get to feel like an actual human being because you get time to shower and get to wear ‘real’ clothes and go out in public and get to spend time with people who you want to spend time with and go anywhere in that small town your heart could desire! but I wasn’t happy. It was just a completely off day for me. It is more than likely due to exhaustion and also the fact that people do just have of days but the fact it was on my day off made me even more miserable. I felt I was ruining my day off, and not getting the most I could out of it.

I was also spending the day with Ian and another one of the loveliest  people in the entire world! and I felt my down mood was also ruining their day and I never want that for them so it all became a downward spiral. They were constantly trying to cheer me up which made me feel like I was definitely having a negative effect on their day. But they did not give up! It ended up with them just grabbing me and cuddling me and not letting go and singing “I’ve got a bucket, got a bucket full of sunshine…” They sang bucket because a pocket wasn’t enough sunshine to express how happy they wanted me to be.

Hence the name 🙂 🙂

xox