on being happy.

I've been thinking over the past few days, that there's so much to life and sometimes it's hard to un-twist all the knots that can form (good and bad knots, mind you) around me.

But I've come to realize that it's more simple than I make it out to be.

I just want to be happy.
In the present.
Now.
I am happy.

The type of happy that makes you sigh with contentment as you're walking down the street, the happy that helps you to not worry and stress over what is to come. The happy that helps you to remember that decisions (mine? mission and schooling) will be made when it is the right time.

It's good that that happy shines through all the muddy decisions made at this time of life.

and I will continue on the quest to find happy(and conquer, for current happinesses)

I'm a big proponent of timing. I believe that everything happens for a reason and in the right time.

This past week, I saw a documentary at the LSA Institute that I'm here in Ann Arbor for--
It was raising issues of language that were fascinating, but I won't get into those here. The crazy part that stuck out to me was that it was talking about a group of people in Brazil, the Pirahã, and they don't have a way of communicating past or future tense in their language. They don't worry about that. They live completely in the present. I want that, and I have been inspired! 

Here's to living in the now.
Completely and utterly happy. 


xoxox,
ash