11 Little Things That Make Me Happy
At the end of last year, I lost my engagement ring and wedding band. I was already having a pretty rubbish year, and this certainly didn’t help.
Of course I was upset, but over the years I’ve had a lot of practice at emotionally letting go of things that are out of my control. This was definitely one of those times!
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that several years earlier, I lost a lot.
Relationships, friends, my job, part of my vision and brain function, my leg, toes and fingertips, my ability to walk and drive.… the list goes on (you can read the full story here).
My point is that after losing all of that, you really can’t help but become less attached to ‘stuff’.
But this wasn’t just any ol’ stuff. This stuff meant more to me than any of the other stuff I owned.
This was the engagement ring that my husband slipped on my finger when he proposed, and it meant the world to me.
I would have traded my entire wardrobe, my television and every piece of furniture in my apartment to have those rings back. Search …
But now they were gone forever.
They’d slipped from my finger, and I never felt them go.
I haven’t had normal sensation in my fingertips since nine of them were amputated about thirteen years ago.
Fortunately, my rings were covered by insurance, so for the first time (and hopefully the last) I put in a claim.
It was an incredibly slow process with unnecessary phone calls and paperwork.
But in the end – yippee!
Obviously, it wouldn’t bring back my original rings, but I could replace them with exact replicas (above). It was definitely better than nothing.
On the day I picked up my new rings from the jewellers, I surprised even myself at how insanely happy I was.
WTF?! Where the hell had Lisa gone?
For a long time I’ve been writing and speaking about the fact that you don’t need material stuff to be happy.
So I put together a list of all the little things that make me happy – stuff that lights up my world and doesn’t cost thousands of dollars. Because sometimes (if not all the time) it’s the little things!
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the firsts now fall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.”
– Sharon Draper
