Follow Your Happiness
“Slow down. Find peace in little moments. Learn what you love, fill your life with it, and watch yourself come alive.” - Sonya Matejko
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Follow Your Happiness
Earlier I was sorting out some notebooks and from in-between a couple a letter fell out and onto the sofa. I picked it up. It was a letter from a stranger.
I have taken part in Martha Brook’s The Lovely Letter Exchange for the past two years. It is a beautifully wholesome exchange of letters written for and by strangers. It was born out of lockdown when human connection seemed so much more important, and the need to spread kindness was great.
I opened the envelope - a postcard.
“follow your happiness”
and on the reverse -
“Dear Friend,
Lately I’ve been thinking how important it is to find something you truly enjoy. For me it is spending time with my horse and discovering a good book. I hope this little card will inspire you to seek happiness always.
Much Love S xxx”
As we start this year, I have spent lots of time reassessing, reflecting, and resetting. As we discussed last week, I wanted to take an intentionally slower approach to this year. I've got so many plans and thoughts and (inspired by my word of the year) dreams bubbling around my head, but I wanted to take a much-needed breather. Instead of diving in and starting a load of projects and pursuing everything that had been ruminating in my mind. I wanted to pause. Slow down. I didn’t want to get swept up in that old, all too familiar ‘goal setting’, ‘5 steps to change your life’, ‘new you’ January, that I've always felt intimidated by.