Retired Expat
Full time employment: Posting here.
Got to thinking if this might be the happiest I have ever been in my life? Or is it just contentment?
What really is it that makes us happy at different stages in our lifetime?
What are your happiness triggers? Love, success, quiet contentment? And how have they changed in retirement?
I shall regress. This morning had my coffee in bed and studied my 45 minutes of Spanish online. Got up, worked in the kitchen a bit making fresh apple sauce, (all that peeling) went off to meet DW for a cafe con leche and a chat, came home to the lake house to marvel at the ever changing view (today puffy little clouds reflecting in the water and in the sky.
Made the bed, emptied the dishwasher and cleaned out the inside of the car and vacuumed it. (We have dogs so yuck!)
So nothing great right? Still am joyfully happy! In October will be in Paris and will be happy too.
So what is the nature of your happiness? Only took me 60 years to figure out mine. Or that it changes and we need to change with it. Know too many people fixed on one idea of happiness and pursue it doggedly all their lives only to never really find it, or they find just enough occasionally to keep them going.
Hoping you all find your happiness today!
What really is it that makes us happy at different stages in our lifetime?
What are your happiness triggers? Love, success, quiet contentment? And how have they changed in retirement?
I shall regress. This morning had my coffee in bed and studied my 45 minutes of Spanish online. Got up, worked in the kitchen a bit making fresh apple sauce, (all that peeling) went off to meet DW for a cafe con leche and a chat, came home to the lake house to marvel at the ever changing view (today puffy little clouds reflecting in the water and in the sky.
Made the bed, emptied the dishwasher and cleaned out the inside of the car and vacuumed it. (We have dogs so yuck!)
So nothing great right? Still am joyfully happy! In October will be in Paris and will be happy too.
So what is the nature of your happiness? Only took me 60 years to figure out mine. Or that it changes and we need to change with it. Know too many people fixed on one idea of happiness and pursue it doggedly all their lives only to never really find it, or they find just enough occasionally to keep them going.
Hoping you all find your happiness today!