Just 10 days shy of Christmas, it's an important message.
Happiness isn't things.
The faster you can come to this realization, the more fulfilled your life will become.
Happiness isn't things. It never has been and it never will be. Things create clutter. They create a desire for more things and one day you'll be sitting in a house full of things and you'll realize they never made you happy.
Because, my dear sweet boy who plays with tupperware and small pieces of paper and trash. You are wise beyond your years to know that sometimes the box is more exciting than the thing inside.
Happiness is boxes and climbing into them and hiding under them. It's taking a walk with your grandpa. It's sitting on the ocean as the breeze wraps around you.
It's seeing a new place for the very first time. It's trying a new food you never thought you'd try.
It's hearing your favorite band live in a tiny venue in a tiny town.
It's sitting on the couch curled up in a blanket your Great Grandma spent 2 months making for you with her hands that are plagued by arthritis.
It's experiences and experience.
It's painting in the basement and walking in the paint and leaving tiny footprints everywhere. It's building lego towers and counting planes in the backyard. It's the way you feel the very first time you realize you love someone.
It's the way I feel when you say "I love you."
Happiness isn't things. You'll discover this for yourself one day. And when Christmas rolls around that year and people ask you want you want, you'll smile because you already have every thing you ever needed.
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