after my stroke I have seen darkness very closely, so I watch very closely what makes me happy & I have realised by doing few things like having routine & doing something new every day in my life it brings in lasting happiness. over the years I have learned happiness is a choice so on PMS days I work hard to choose wisely lol. Anyway for me having routine in life brings in contentment & if I am learning & trying something new also brings in lot of excitement in my life. Recently I have been learning excel to take care of our home finances. & being Programmer, I would always pull my hair complaining to hubby, it would have been so easy if excel did this simple logical operation, so anyway after getting frustrated over it. I finally googled it & found solution vola excel already has that feature which I can use it & make my spreadsheel give me information at the tip of my fingertip, man it made me so happy & I was beaming for few days with my new discovery, so it is official once a nerd always a nerd lol, though I was reading article in the magazine which talks about how to create lasting happiness in life & one of the suggestion was be creative & learn something new. I know when I was taking classes in nearby community college to learn new subjects it used to keep me very happy. hubby used to call those courses my happy pill without actual medication. though over the years I have weaned myself off all the happy pills & learnt to use those knowledge in my daily life which brings joy & contentment in my life. okay now will get off my bragbox. hope you all implement this simple rules in your life to find that lasting happiness too.

Asha