Are You Happy Yet?

I think I may have read this book before, or I have read so many "Make Me Happy" books, that they are morphing!!! I picked this last summer book, to continue in my journey, to be a better person. It's hard work, and I'm already happy!!! The book, The Happiness Project:Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin. How can you NOT read this book, the title is worth the price. My desire to ooze happiness, did not happen, the book annoyed me. Honestly not all of it, she had a plan for herself, and she is just sharing information, I get it. Do we need a plan? I guess it's ok, to set some goals? I think happy people don't search to be happy? My shrink once said, " Bonnie why do you think people need to be happy?" "No one is happy!" I loved that doctor!!! For years we fought over our opinion about happiness, he finally gave in, and I sent him a bill!!!
Happiness is all around, and you just have to give it a comfortable seat at the table!!! Each night, I thank the lord for my bed, I love my bed, it thrills me. Good shoes make me happy, and diet coke. Hair color makes me jump for joy, friends, family, animals. I love to open a new tooth brush, hold a baby, happy hold my heart.
I just did not feel it from this book. There were many good quotes in the book, that I will steal, and I thank her for that. Like Garrison Keillor saying, "we all fancy ourselves to be above average" love that line. Also "Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable but, as I was reminded by these writers, in can be destroyed in a single phone call!" I have lived that sentence, and happiness found me. This quote, "Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
I choose to live a big life, giving and giving more. Using it up, wearing it out, all day, everyday!
I have a plan!!
So did this author, and I think she is happier for it.