Happiness is Homemade

Being away from home, and trying to meet new people, and going out a lot … I became terrified of being alone. I constantly want to go out, which is really odd, because I used to cherish being alone so much. At one point, I decided” “This is not making me as happy as I’d like to be,” I need to reconnect with “me”. I turned into a “grandmother”; I go to bed really early and I wake up early; I go to yoga; I meditate; I become this cliche slow-paced person I used to make fun of. Luckily, it works for me. It’s just a way for me trying to achieve that state of wellness and happiness. So, last year, we—Puty Puar and I—went on a pilot to collect a bunch of inspirations and sources of homemade happiness. The quality that she was describing, I think as a kind of quality we want to pass on the next generation, or probably for now: for ourselves, for our family, for our closest circle. Why would we focus more on passing children science than kindness, connecting to the others, and happiness? There’s an assumption that happiness, it just happens in life. But the more we know, we just have to look around us. In ourselves, in our home, in our society. It just doesn’t happen for everybody. If we’re not talking about those people who are struggling don’t have permission to talk about that. I think for a long time, it’s just us swept under the rug and it’s something we don’t really want to talk about. We’re trying to make it be socially acceptable where we can talk about our minds in the same way we talk about technology and economics. And we hope, through that, we can find a place that feels comfortable, and a happier mind :).

This book is so simple and easy to read ! But it really worth it to read. You actually will find that being happy and grateful is just simple than you think !

I love the book is very simple, cheerful, colorful, reminding us that simple things happen in our life are the things we can be grateful for.