beauty all around you. .
Monday, October 27, 2008
adding more romance to your life is easy, today — there is beauty all around you. adding more romance to your life doesn’t always mean turning up the heat on a love relationship. romance should be a part of everything in your life, in the truest sense of the word. today, try to ensure that what you see is beautiful, what you hear is mellifluous, and what you eat is delicious. give yourself the gift of pleasurable moments that you can look back at in the future. now’s a great time to splurge on yourself and make yourself feel extra-special..
that’s what my horoscope tells me a few days back. i was never a fan but i browse it just for the heck of reading it and it gives me an excuse to ponder about certain things in my life - like happiness.
what is the good life? does money indeed buy happiness? i learned that the good life springs less from earning one’s first million than from loving and being loved. from developing the traits that mark happy lives, from finding connection and meaningful hope in faith communities, and from experiencing “flow” in work and recreation. materialism surged during the 70’s and 80’s. materialism was up, spirituality down. so believing that it is “very important” to be very well-off financially, and having seen our privileged circumstances ratchet upward little by little over four decades, are we now happier?
