If people were to describe you in one word, what would it be? <\/p>\n
I thought about that this weekend as I was going through a box of keepsakes. In many old letters, I noticed several friends wrote down that when they think of me, they get the word: “happy”<\/a>. Warmed my soul.<\/p>\n It reminded me of a statement that an old roommate made about me last year: “I can’t ever imagine you depressed.” It floored me, because I wasn’t always like this. I spent a lot of my youth just generally bummed out about life. And then in my 20s, I was always lamenting whatever I didn’t have. <\/p>\n However, something about my 30s has filled me optimism. I wish I could tell you what it is, but I simply determined to enjoy my life<\/a>. I want to be happy<\/a>. I seek out happy things, and miraculously happiness seems to find me. <\/p>\n