The Trick to Finding Happiness in Little Things
With the way that all the things in the world are going on today - what with all the wars, conflicts, low economic status, capped by the ever-changing yet busy lives that most of the people lead - it has become difficult for us when it comes to finding happiness.
Not only that, we also find it difficult to keep up an emotional connection with people whom we do not spend a lot of time with.
Basically, while we do manage to stay connected with one another, half the time this connection is not done in an emotional way.
Sure, we keep in touch through phone calls and emails, but when was the last time that we really took the time to give a little something that would convey whatever emotion we feel towards the person we are giving the said gift to? There is no doubt about it, but gift giving is a very simple trick in finding happiness.
As little kids, whenever we were feeling blue or came home crying from a fight, a wound or a bad grade, our parents would give us little treats to cheer us up.
We used to love getting gifts for whatever reason and occasion possible.
Our faces would light up as we opened the packages that were set before us.
We would excitedly tear into all the wrapping in order to get to the things that each box or package held.
Also, we would squeal with joy as we unearthed the treasures that each package held within.
Suffice to say that finding happiness can be achieve when you open that little box or package that holds a treasure that someone has chosen especially with you in mind.
Some people might say that it is a shallow way of finding happiness, getting gifts.
However shallow it may seem, it is not actually the gift itself that is the key to bring happy, but the thought that someone in our life thought well enough of us to go and send a little token of his or her love, appreciation or for whatever other reason there is to send such a gift.
It is not the gift itself that it important, but the thought that we are special enough o be worth sending a little present to.
Doesn't it seem like a great thing to come home after a really crappy day and find an unexpected little surprise waiting for you at home? What more if the unexpected gift is from someone who you have not even been close to for a long time, if at all.
That would surely put a smile on your face and a spring in your step for the rest of the day.
Not only that, we also find it difficult to keep up an emotional connection with people whom we do not spend a lot of time with.
Basically, while we do manage to stay connected with one another, half the time this connection is not done in an emotional way.
Sure, we keep in touch through phone calls and emails, but when was the last time that we really took the time to give a little something that would convey whatever emotion we feel towards the person we are giving the said gift to? There is no doubt about it, but gift giving is a very simple trick in finding happiness.
As little kids, whenever we were feeling blue or came home crying from a fight, a wound or a bad grade, our parents would give us little treats to cheer us up.
We used to love getting gifts for whatever reason and occasion possible.
Our faces would light up as we opened the packages that were set before us.
We would excitedly tear into all the wrapping in order to get to the things that each box or package held.
Also, we would squeal with joy as we unearthed the treasures that each package held within.
Suffice to say that finding happiness can be achieve when you open that little box or package that holds a treasure that someone has chosen especially with you in mind.
Some people might say that it is a shallow way of finding happiness, getting gifts.
However shallow it may seem, it is not actually the gift itself that is the key to bring happy, but the thought that someone in our life thought well enough of us to go and send a little token of his or her love, appreciation or for whatever other reason there is to send such a gift.
It is not the gift itself that it important, but the thought that we are special enough o be worth sending a little present to.
Doesn't it seem like a great thing to come home after a really crappy day and find an unexpected little surprise waiting for you at home? What more if the unexpected gift is from someone who you have not even been close to for a long time, if at all.
That would surely put a smile on your face and a spring in your step for the rest of the day.
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