I’m going through a tough point in my life, a real fork in the road and a big transition from college to adulthood, and a deeply painful breakup with the girl I thought I’d spend my life with. I feel so different. I’m searching for my own meaning, and I’m confused and need direction. Really, I need hope, and optimism, and the belief that the best is yet to come because my nostalgia for my life before, and its lightness, keeps me in the past and scared to death of the future. I feel like I don’t know how to construct my own happiness, I always fall into it or get it from others. My happiness feels external, and out of my control. So, I keep starting these books about meaning, and life, but they’re all really sad, and that bleeds into me. I want a book that can help me see that it’s possible to live life with a smile, to take it easy, and to know with absolute confidence that it’ll all be okay, despite not having control, and that I’m enough. Or maybe I just need more therapy haha. Self-help type books are what I’m used to, but I think a narrative would help me a lot more. Thank you for any suggestions.
by skibeedaboopbob
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Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods
A book that I always found joy in is The Little Prince. “What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them…Happiness doesn’t lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.” Something that I try to do to stay happy in moments where I’m feeling down is “glimmers.” Glimmers are “small, everyday moments or cues that spark feelings of safety, connection, and joy.” One of my glimmers is the smell of freshly brewed coffee 🙂☕️✨ What is one of your glimmers?