Humanist

First, happy Sunday to you all who follow and engage with me on my blog. Your likes and  comments make me happy and motivate me to do more of what makes me happy.

Incidentally, today is the anniversary of my birth. I was born on a Sunday decades ago and for a long time my nickname was Sunday. I am blessed and privileged to continue living a happy life overall.

I am happiest when I feel or conclude I am leading an Aristotelian good life.

• Ticking off accomplishments achieved ethically even when no one is looking makes me happy 😉
• As simple as ticking off items that I was able to do on my daily to do list makes me happy.
• And I am real happy when I do and complete a task I have been postponing for ages. Like yesterday, I did sorting and filing of papers I have been postponing for over a year. It took the whole day and I was exhausted, but happy.
• Ultimately, of course, I happy when I achieve bigger and fulfilling accomplishments of my own doing and also because of others. Like a development project completed; an online course completed; and others.
• I am happy when I have food on the table and am nourished with sufficient quantity and quality of food that physically enables me to live a good life.
• When I can’t remember the last time I was ill and incapacitated I am happy to wake up each day with gratitude, get out of bed and enjoy doing for myself.
• Solitude that allows me to do things that make me happy I like. Like reading, blogging, internal reflection, cooking and others.
• Knowing that I made others happy makes me happy.
• Sometimes it is through material gifts, because they desperately need it, I am happy when I know my giving makes others less fortunate happy.
• Other times when I give non-material things, such as advice or just being their for another in silence or in solidarity and friendship and it makes them happy am happy.
• Knowing my friends, colleagues, relatives and loved ones are accomplishing and achieving the ten aspects I have listed above two fold in the way that makes them happy makes up the thirty things that make me happy 😊