"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody."
- Chinese Proverb
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| Smile thru storms |
If you find yourself getting frustrated with the mundanity of life, try focusing on how you can serve others. This can have an immense impact on your own life.
Cook a neighbor some cookies, buy a meal for someone experiencing homelessness, help someone who is stranded on the side of the road, buy someone's groceries, volunteer at a homeless shelter, donate some of your homegrown vegetables, volunteer at an organization helping refugees, volunteer at an orphanage, those are just a few ideas of how you can help others - if you so desire. There are probably millions if not billions of ways you can help others. Get creative with it!
Think about how if a neighbor were to bring you some cookies, how much that would make your day. Even if you don't like cookies, or if they're terrible or if you don't eat sugar, just the act of them bringing you cookies will still brighten your day. If it would make your day better, go brighten somebody else's day with it.
