It’s the first Monday of a new year and a new decade. So naturally it’s a fitting time to start anew. Or in my case finally live up to the mission I set out to complete on my seventh birthday when my grandfather asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Happy.
Simply and purely answered with the heart and innocence of a child who clearly had no idea.
So today I start this journey and hopefully you along with me. I have no idea where this is going or if like countless other resolutions I will leave it behind by lunchtime tomorrow. But I’ve gone so far as to register here so I’m committed… today. Needing a “map” so to know where I’m going and what I’m looking for - I looked in the dictionary and below is what I found:
ha•ppy –adjective, -pi⋅er, -pi⋅est.
1. Delighted, pleased, or glad as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
2. Chareacterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: happy mood; a happy frame of mind.
3. Favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky: happy, fruitful land.
4. Apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas.
5. Obsessed by or quick to use the item indicated (usually used in combination): a trigger-happy gangster. Everybody is gardget-happy these days.
Origin: 1300–50
Synonyms:
1. joyous, joyful, blithe, cheerful, merry, contented, gay, blissful, satisfied. 3. favorable, propitious; successful, prosperous. 4. appropriate, fitting, opportune, pertinent. 5. fortunate.
Antonyms:
1. sad.
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Hmmm.
This all sounds like a tall order. I better take inventory here at the beginning and see where I stand. [sigh]
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