My Pursuit of Happiness

This blog originally started at not the best time of my life. As someone used to always being on the go, I was suddenly done college, done with sorority life, jobless and living back at home for the first time with just my mom and sister. It was sort of putting me in a situation to deal with some stuff from a few years ago that I got to avoid while I was at school, so I decided to take life a day at a time.

I made a list of priorities and goals that I knew I had to work for to keep myself going. These were the big things: a job, moving out of the house, losing ten pounds.

Along the way, I knew that I had to follow a motto that I often told people when describing myself: It's the little things that make me happy.

It's ice cream or water ice on that hot summer day. It's getting a close parking spot on a rainy day. It's your favorite elliptical at the gym being empty.

When one of these things happens, it doesn't always mean so much. If you're having a bad day, it might make you smile, but when things are good, it often goes unnoticed.

Be sure to take the time to notice the little things.

I've found that when one little good thing happens, it seems to snowball. That's why you need to be sure to be paying attention and enjoying the little things. That way, you won't miss when all the little things add up and make one big thing. Yeah, it can happen. The snowball effect. You know, when things get bad, everything sucks. But guess what? It really, really does happen both ways. The almost-unheard of positive snowball effect.

Right now, lots of little things have come together. Lots of little good things have come together. Little snowflakes have all come together to make one lovely snowball.


And the funny thing is, I hate snow.