DAY 8,000: Redefine happiness

I used to think happiness was something I would get to at some point, that one day everything would fall into place and stay there.

It’s not as if when you drop twenty pounds the world will be right and will remain right as long as the twenty pounds stay off. You can be fat and happy or thin and happy, and if you’re lucky you’ll have many happy moments and days. Just don’t expect to have nonstop happy decades.

I see happiness as contentment with what you’re doing right now. That may be nothing at all, or something ambitious, or something in between. It’s a sense of not wanting to be anywhere else.