#100happydays

One of my friends on the course, Georgia, has been doing the 100 Happy Days Challenge for a couple of months now, and I was thinking I would like to do it. The basic premise is that every day you take a picture and post it to social media using the hashtag, of something that makes you happy - anything from something momentous to something as small as the feeling of getting home after a long day.

We live in times when super-busy schedules have become something to boast about. While the speed of life increases, there is less and less time to enjoy the moment that you are in. The ability to appreciate the moment, the environment and yourself in it, is the base for the bridge towards long term happiness of any human being.

I love the idea of taking the time everyday to notice what is making you happy, and just exist in that moment and enjoy it. However, I think I will wait until I get back from my various upcoming trips (Spain in particular) to start, as I'd hate to fail the challenge right off the bat just because I didn't have internet for a week. In fact, that will probably be my biggest challenge - not taking the time to notice what is making me happy, but being able to access internet every day for 100 days. But, when I'm back, I will give it a go, and we shall see how it goes!

In the meantime, something that has made me happy recently: I had a very lovely day this Sunday. We had the time change for daylight savings, which meant I got very little sleep, and, due to the fact that others in French Club had not had half as productive a Saturday as I did, we decided to meet at 10:30am (which ended up being more like 11 because Alix and I were both having disorganized mornings - me because I didn't want to get up and her because she missed the bus). End result: we were both very sleepy and having trouble forming English sentences, much less French ones, so French Club was more like leisurely half-asleep coffee with some random french thrown in. After we finished our drinks and croissants, we browsed the books for a while, and I got Alix to take a picture of my outfit that day, which included my new shirt that I got on sale at Topshop the other day.

I also bought some books for the first time in months, but I'm very excited for all of them. I've heard some very good things about Half Bad, I love Holly Black and am super excited for her newest book (The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, which also sounds amazing), and Claire McFall is one of the authors going in our anthology, so I'm very excited to read her book Ferryman, which I've also heard good things about.