Good morning! 
Lately I've been thinking a lot about happiness and I've come to the conclusion that it's rarely connected to that material hunt and prey, that climbing to the top, to which we devote our entire lives.

Happiness is...

- This is when I have been unable to cook the perfect casserole for my child for a long time and suddenly one morning I received the highest approval of the Capricious Princess. 
- This is when I found a book that I can’t put down, and finishing the last page I already know that I want to dive into this exciting world again. 
- This is when one fine day my hands can finally embody what my head has come up with and I look at a new art unable to believe in its perfection. 
- This is when my daughter and I watch the cartoon Inside Out and I laugh and cry, receiving yet another proof of how interesting and complex this person next to me becomes, what awesome thoughts she has about the heroes and their actions. 
- This is when I wake up for a week without the hellish pain that tormented me for years and which retreated after the operation. There are many other small pains, but the one that did not allow me to breathe and tortured me for hours ... it is gone. And it is such a miracle that I endlessly whisper apologies and gratitude to my body.
-  This is when I realize that before Covid we didn't value the opportunity to travel and freely leave the house, and before the war - the opportunity not to hear explosions at night and just to always be close to our family, but now after so many trials I start the day with the joy that we are alive and end it with an internal list of good things that happened to me, even if it is a short list, but every day. 
- This is when somewhere out there, far away, my husband returns from combat duty, he is tired, I am tired, but we chat all night like teenagers - giggling and impatiently awaiting each new message. When it begins to dawn, we say goodbye with difficulty ... cos after decades together we are still just as young and in love. 
- This is when a letter arrives about the start of an auction, but for me it is not only about success and money, but about the joy that someone's heart began to beat faster looking at what was created by my heart.  

Happiness is in the little things, in emotions, in being with those you love and doing what makes you happy.