Ampersand Answers: In Front of Me

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—

It’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Brené Brown 

The Question: 

How do I find consistent happiness? 

&mpersand Answers: 

So much, I mean so much of life is paying attention. Have you ever thought about that expression?  

Paying attention. 

It means there’s a cost to attention. If I’m paying attention to something, it means, by default, that there are things to which I am not paying attention. 

Consistent happiness is yours for the taking, Belovèd, if you’ll pay attention. Just as we help others by paying attention, we also help ourselves when we pay attention. 

When the morning’s news is particularly gruesome (as it was the morning I’m writing this,) I make sure not to end that segment of my day until I notice some good news. 

It’s easy to forget that we live on a planet based on the Complementarity of Opposites—a metaphysical version of the notion of balance.  

If there’s misery, then somewhere, there’s equal happiness. 

Practicing gratitude—are you breathing? Good, there’s oxygen—whilst you are paying attention makes the happy moments last longer and come more often.  

&&&&