When I first picked up “The Happiness Project” at my aunt’s house in late fall, the idea excited me.  The words inspired me.  I received the book in January as a gift from my husband’s parents and I couldn’t wait to get at it.  I began reading often and at length with eagerness.

Today, I can barely finish a section of a chapter.  My eagerness comes in closing the book for good, yet I can barely bring myself to open it.   Today I opened the book to read “The best way out is always through.”  This quote by Robert Frost may be my only motivation, yet I set the book down quickly after finding this phrase to be the only thing of interest to me.  Funny.

Actually, other things did interest me.  For example, the author is pondering Buddhism in this chapter and I recently opened a little book about Buddha.  Moreover, I recently signed up for a course in Neuro-something-or-another that’s mission is to teach me “mindfulness.”  This is the Buddhist concept that Rubin attempts to delve into with the month, and chapter of, “October.” 

While reading, though, I thought of writing this blog.  I thought of my boredom.  I thought of not having a very comfortable place to sit and read.  I thought of how I was failing miserably in mindfulness as I thought of all of these other things.  So I quit while I was ahead and what made me feel happiness was that I could skip reading, skip writing, skip the many goals I have like learning the guitar, promoting my cd, or sharpening my voiceover skills and simply vacuum. 

I do like making things look pretty.