Sometimes, happiness is a good night's sleep. Comes with regret attached, though, because by the time you know you're doing it, you're no longer doing it. Perhaps the happiness part is back there at the beginning, when you're ready to sleep and none of those thoughts even occurs to you - so tired, need to sleep, worried about getting to sleep, et cetera. Or maybe happiness is watching the Avatar DVD, longest version of the film, with a medium-sized boy who has wrapped himself up on the sofa with his duvet, pillow, drink of water, and who falls asleep not long after the tree comes down. Before all the battles. Two people in need of sleep.
Keep waking up in the morning with a clear purpose for the day. Not a big thing, necessarily, but a clear perception: this needs to be done. The action of the day is not always to blur it, but often enough. A matter of keeping up momentum. And carrying on with this enormous paper-shredding exercise. Any successful exercise in clearing out clutter, taking stuff to the dump, recycling paper that didn't need to be kept even when it was first set aside, making spaces free - any such exercise seems to involve a spiritual loss of weight. We're getting lighter by the day.
Keep waking up in the morning with a clear purpose for the day. Not a big thing, necessarily, but a clear perception: this needs to be done. The action of the day is not always to blur it, but often enough. A matter of keeping up momentum. And carrying on with this enormous paper-shredding exercise. Any successful exercise in clearing out clutter, taking stuff to the dump, recycling paper that didn't need to be kept even when it was first set aside, making spaces free - any such exercise seems to involve a spiritual loss of weight. We're getting lighter by the day.