This isn't technically a happy experience, but it is a thought on Happiness based on a meditation yesterday. I was looking for books on happiness at the church library and came across this book by Marsha Sinetar, Living Happily Ever After: Thrive on Change, Triumph over Adversity. I have not yet read it, but she made an interesting point in her introduction.
We tend to think of Happily Ever After is something for children's stories and as a adults that it is not real. However, It is possible to have Happily Ever After, when we view things the right way.
It was always a little troubling that Happily Ever After always stopped at the resolution to a problem and then nothing else happened. But perhaps it was a Happily Ever After because the characters learned to work together to solve problems together.
The Happiness Project has actually been a good way to demonstrate this and move me toward Happily Ever After. By focusing on the good things and looking for them, it certainly makes things seem like they are going well.
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