"Because happiness is not always about adding more.
Sometimes it is about remembering."
Yes! I do get too caught up, and I forget. I am guilty of wanting to build a better me for sure. I want to learn and grow. But you are right, I need to remember the things I love in general and about me. Thank you for writing.
This really landed. I think so many of us spend years trying to become a better version of ourselves, when what we're actually longing for is to reconnect with the parts of us that already feel most alive.
Sarah, this is a deeply nourishing reflection because you make joy feel less like another project to manage and more like a form of remembering. The line about spending more time with the version of ourselves we already enjoy being feels especially important, because it gently releases people from treating happiness as proof that they have improved enough to deserve it. I appreciate the way you bring the body into the conversation, since laughter, music, grass, sea air, movement, and rest often remember us before the mind can explain what has been missing. Grateful for this invitation to notice where life still feels alive, and to trust those small returns as part of coming home to ourselves.
Writing. My oxygen
"Because happiness is not always about adding more.
Sometimes it is about remembering."
Yes! I do get too caught up, and I forget. I am guilty of wanting to build a better me for sure. I want to learn and grow. But you are right, I need to remember the things I love in general and about me. Thank you for writing.
This really landed. I think so many of us spend years trying to become a better version of ourselves, when what we're actually longing for is to reconnect with the parts of us that already feel most alive.
Sarah, this is a deeply nourishing reflection because you make joy feel less like another project to manage and more like a form of remembering. The line about spending more time with the version of ourselves we already enjoy being feels especially important, because it gently releases people from treating happiness as proof that they have improved enough to deserve it. I appreciate the way you bring the body into the conversation, since laughter, music, grass, sea air, movement, and rest often remember us before the mind can explain what has been missing. Grateful for this invitation to notice where life still feels alive, and to trust those small returns as part of coming home to ourselves.