"I didn't want to wait for a crisis to remake my life." (Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project)
I read the Happiness Project a few years ago, when a neighbor gathered a group of us to study it together. I never really connected to the material at the time. I'm reading it now, and it's like an entirely new book to me. Just goes to show that you have to be in the right place at the right time for things.
I'm reading this not because I'm trying to figure out how to be happy. I think I'm trying more to figure out why I've never been happy before now--and why I've found happy after a crisis (or two). Or maybe I'm trying to figure out if I'm really happy now, or if I'm just frantically chasing an illusion of happiness, trying to avoid fear. I suspect that the the latter is true--and that the things I've chased in the past were simply the wrong things, and I'm finally figuring that out after 45 years?
In the end, does it matter which it is, if it's true that faking it can help you make it?!
