“Happiness isn’t on the road to anything. Happiness is the road”

“Be kind because everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Both are from his autobiography “Chronicles, Volume One.” I just started it tonight.

…can be as addictive as any drug.

Last week my friend Terrell Meek wrote an inspired post on feeling happy more often through a “Recipe for Little Happiness.”

Here’s her first ingredient:

Recognize what makes me feel good. I take the time to register my emotions so that I don’t pass by a moment of happiness unnoticed. This sounds absurd, but we’ve all ruined a perfectly good moment by worrying about future events. The classic example is the feeling of dread you may get on Sunday evenings as you start to think about work the next day. This practice also helps me identify what it is that actually makes me happy, which keeps me from repeatedly doing things only because I think they should make me happy.

Click here to read the rest of it. Her perspective has already made my week better.

One time my buddy Charlie and I were on a roadtrip, and he was documenting the whole thing on video. There was a point in the trip, I think early one morning, he flipped the camera onto me. I was suddenly very conscious of my actions, my facial expression, my tone. I got awkward.

“Sorry, I have nothing entertaining to say,” I said.

“You don’t have to be entertaining, you just have to be real,” he said back.

I think that was a good call.