Happiness is not in things, but in ourselves. - Richard Wagner (Germany)
See such a topic online: how to be happier in life.
After thinking about it, at the age of forty, I don't know when it started, and the days have become more and more obscure.
Inadvertently, depressed things always seem to line up, making it impossible to avoid, and we have a hard time finding ourselves happy.
Last Friday, the morning also came out of the sun, but at noon, the weather suddenly changed, and then look at the weather app in the mobile phone, saying that typhoon "Candu" is coming, far from Shanghai, not sure where to land, but the wind and rain is not ambiguous, not much effort to bring downpour.
When it was time for the weekend to leave work, the rain stopped, and the mood improved.
When I opened the car door to go home, my mood suddenly fell to the bottom. It turned out that I found that the co-pilot's mat was full of water, and the doors and windows were so closed that it was impossible to get water from the doors and windows.
Thinking like this, the problem is more serious than I thought, there is no way, I have to go to the repair shop.
With a large pool of water in the car, to the nearby repair shop, the boss is busy to others to repair the tires, after listening to my explanation, the boss opened the car door and said: Well, more water can raise fish!
After careful inspection up and down, the boss found the reason, the roof sunroof drain pipe was broken, and had to be repaired. It's not a big problem, but the water in the car has to be treated thoroughly, and the car will be picked up as soon as Sunday night.
At the same time, the boss also said that if other problems are found during the repair process, the cost will increase.
There is no way, at this time can only be repaired, with so much water boiling, too risky. Time plus money, again, is an unplanned expense. Thinking of this, the mood immediately became depressed. And that's the main color of my weekend.
On Sunday, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the boss called and said that the car was good and there was no other problem. So I picked up my umbrella and went out the door.
The wind is still very strong, it is still raining outside, and the entrance to the community is not far away from the small pond. I thought that many people should stay at home in this kind of weather, but the next scene made my eyes light up.
It turned out that there was a little girl holding an umbrella, wearing beautiful little boots walking around in the water, and from time to time she had to step on the rain with her feet, looking very happy.
At the edge of the pond, it should be the girl's mother, who is smiling with an umbrella and looking at the playful child. Typhoons and rains did not affect their mood at all, but became a rare leisure.
Somehow, my heart was suddenly touched, it turned out that there was always something around us that made us happy, but as we grew older, we gradually ignored all this.
It is we ourselves who define the dark undertone of life.
I remember when I was a child, when I came home from school, my parents would always ask me: Happy in school, right? What's interesting? As a result, I will tell the interesting things one by one, and the whole person's mood will be better.
Now think about it, if the parents asked the question in a different way: Unhappy at school, right? Say something unhappy. Perhaps, I may casually reply: unhappy.
When we grow up, we no longer have parents to ask us whether we are happy, but if we are used to asking ourselves what happy things we are, we actually define life as "happy".
When we default to the fact that the background of life is happy, we are more likely to be happy in life.
Either way, as long as you can still laugh, the world isn't too bad.
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